There are 5.07 billion internet users in the world today. The total number of internet users around the world grew by 171 million in the past 12 months – that’s an average of almost half a million new users every day. Globally, internet user numbers are growing at an annual rate of 3.5 percent, but year-on-year growth is much higher in many developing economies. Research restrictions caused by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic have also limited updates to internet user numbers over the past year, so we anticipate that actual growth rates may be higher than the latest data suggest. The average global internet user now spends 6 hours and 37 minutes online each day, but this is actually 5 percent less than the daily average for October 2021. Added together, the world’s internet users will spend roughly 1.4 billion years of combined human existence online in 2022.