How many devices are connected to the internet?
Technology hard Data from 2024
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The answer
18,000,000,000 devices
Roughly 18B.
Roughly 18 billion devices are connected to the internet, more than twice the human population. Most are not phones or computers but sensors, meters, cameras and appliances quietly reporting data.
Where this number comes from
| Source | IoT Analytics State of IoT report |
|---|---|
| Figure refers to | 2024 |
| Last checked | |
| Unit | devices |
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