How many photos are taken worldwide each year?

Technology brutal Data from 2024

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Answer in photos. Shorthand like 9m or 1.2bn works.

The answer

1,900,000,000,000 photos

Roughly 1.9T.

People take an estimated 1.9 trillion photos a year, about 5.2 billion a day. Roughly 90% are shot on phones. More photographs are now taken every two minutes than were taken in the entire nineteenth century.

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Source Photutorial photography statistics
Figure refers to 2024
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