Highest number of spam emails sent daily 2024, by country

As of August 13, 2024, the country with the highest number of spam emails sent within one day worldwide was the United States, with around eight billion. Ranking second and third were China and the Germany, with 7.6 billion, and 7.3 billion, respectively. 

Internet and email users around the world

Between 2019 and 2024, the number of email users globally increased from 3.9 billion to 4.4 billion. Moreover, this number is expected to increase up to 4.8 billion in 2027. Considering the fact that China and India had the highest number of internet users in the world in 2023, with over 1.2 billion and 1.1 billion users respectively, e-mail usage is less popular in these countries than in the United States or Germany, for example. 

Most popular online activities in the U.S.

Not only did the United States have the highest number of daily emails and spam emails sent as of October 2021, it was actually the most popular online activity among internet users in 2019. In fact, 90.9 percent of respondents said they were email users, more than search users, social network users, or digital video viewers.