How many messages are sent every day?
How many messages are sent every day?
about 100 billion on WhatsApp alone
About 50 messages a day per WhatsApp user, and roughly twelve times as many messages sent daily as there are people alive.
WhatsApp alone carries around 100 billion messages a day across roughly 2 billion users, a figure the company disclosed and has not substantially revised. Add Messenger, iMessage, WeChat, Telegram and SMS and the global total is comfortably above 150 billion. SMS, once the whole market, is now a small and shrinking fraction of it, surviving mainly as the transport for one-time verification codes.
How the figure is arrived at
Platform-reported from server-side counts. End-to-end encryption prevents the platform reading messages but not counting them, since the routing infrastructure necessarily handles every one. Independent measurement is impossible.
How confident it is
- Low estimate
- 80,000,000,000
- High estimate
- 140,000,000,000
- Spread
- 1.8× between the bounds
Other every day counts
- How many babies are born each day? about 360,000 — roughly four every second
- How many people die each day? about 170,000 — roughly two every second
- How many Google searches are made every day? roughly 8.5 billion — about 100,000 a second
- How many emails are sent every day? about 360 billion
- How many times does your heart beat in a lifetime? about 2.5 billion
- How many cups of coffee are drunk every day? roughly 2.5 billion
- How many photos are taken every day? roughly 5 billion a day — about 2 trillion a year
- How many steps do you take in a lifetime? roughly 150 million — about 110,000 km
- How many hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute? 500 hours a minute — about 720,000 hours a day
- How many pizzas are sold every day? somewhere between 3 and 8 million a day in the United States
- How many words do we speak a day? about 16,000
- How many breaths do you take in a lifetime? about 600 million
Common questions
- How many messages are sent every day?
- about 100 billion on WhatsApp alone
- How is that estimated?
- Platform-reported from server-side counts. End-to-end encryption prevents the platform reading messages but not counting them, since the routing infrastructure necessarily handles every one. Independent measurement is impossible.
Related pages
- How many babies are born each day? about 360,000 — roughly four every second
- How many people die each day? about 170,000 — roughly two every second
- How many Google searches are made every day? roughly 8.5 billion — about 100,000 a second
- How many emails are sent every day? about 360 billion
- How many times does your heart beat in a lifetime? about 2.5 billion
- How many cups of coffee are drunk every day? roughly 2.5 billion
- How many photos are taken every day? roughly 5 billion a day — about 2 trillion a year
- How many steps do you take in a lifetime? roughly 150 million — about 110,000 km
- How many people are there in the world? Living things and the natural world
- How many stars are there in the universe? Space and the universe
- How many countries are there in the world? Things people built
- How many bones are in the human body? The human body
- How many grains of sand are there on Earth? Living things and the natural world
- How many ants are there in the world? Living things and the natural world
Sources
- Official vendor product documentation — At One Place