Data storage capacity and demand worldwide 2009-2020

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Petroc Taylor,
May 23, 2022
This statistic provides a forecast of data storage demand and supply worldwide, from 2009 to 2020. In 2017, demand for storage is estimated to reach 14,800 exabytes, exceeding the world's storage output by some 4,000 exabytes.

Data storage supply and demand worldwide, from 2009 to 2020 (in exabytes)

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Release date

September 2017

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2016

Supplementary notes

* Forecast

One exabyte is the equivalent of a billion gigabytes.

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