--- title: "How many emails are sent every day? about 360 billion" description: "about 360 billion How the figure is estimated, how confident it is, and what makes the scale graspable." url: https://atoneplace.net/how-many/emails-sent-a-day/ site: "At One Place" --- # How many emails are sent every day? **How many emails are sent every day?: about 360 billion** A person answering every email in a 120-message day at two minutes each would spend four hours on it before doing any other work. Around 360 billion emails are sent each day, and well over half of them are spam — filters catch most of it, so the figure a user experiences bears no relation to the traffic. Business email is a minority of the volume but nearly all of the value. The average office worker receives roughly 120 emails a day and sends about 40. Despite thirty years of predictions that messaging apps would kill it, email volume grows a few percent a year. ## How the figure is arrived at Extrapolated from mailbox counts rather than counted. Take the number of active email accounts worldwide — around 4.5 billion — multiply by measured send and receive rates from a sample of corporate and consumer providers, and adjust for accounts that are dormant. Spam is measured separately at the network level by security vendors. ## How confident it is - **Low estimate:** 300,000,000,000 - **High estimate:** 400,000,000,000 - **Spread:** 1.3× between the bounds ## Other every day counts - [How many babies are born each day?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/babies-born-a-day/) — about 360,000 — roughly four every second - [How many people die each day?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/deaths-a-day/) — about 170,000 — roughly two every second - [How many Google searches are made every day?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/searches-made-a-day/) — roughly 8.5 billion — about 100,000 a second - [How many times does your heart beat in a lifetime?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/heartbeats-in-a-lifetime/) — about 2.5 billion - [How many cups of coffee are drunk every day?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/coffee-drunk-a-day/) — roughly 2.5 billion - [How many photos are taken every day?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/photos-taken-a-day/) — roughly 5 billion a day — about 2 trillion a year - [How many steps do you take in a lifetime?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/steps-in-a-lifetime/) — roughly 150 million — about 110,000 km - [How many hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/video-uploaded-a-day/) — 500 hours a minute — about 720,000 hours a day - [How many pizzas are sold every day?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/pizzas-sold-a-day/) — somewhere between 3 and 8 million a day in the United States - [How many words do we speak a day?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/words-spoken-a-day/) — about 16,000 - [How many breaths do you take in a lifetime?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/breaths-in-a-lifetime/) — about 600 million - [How many messages are sent every day?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/whatsapp-messages-a-day/) — about 100 billion on WhatsApp alone ## Common questions ### How many emails are sent every day? about 360 billion ### How is that estimated? Extrapolated from mailbox counts rather than counted. Take the number of active email accounts worldwide — around 4.5 billion — multiply by measured send and receive rates from a sample of corporate and consumer providers, and adjust for accounts that are dormant. 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