It's estimated that there are over 7.9 billion email accounts worldwide.
While it's impossible to know the exact number of emails that "exist" (meaning those that have ever been created), we can look at the number of active email accounts as a proxy for understanding the scale of email usage.
- As of 2022, there were over 4.258 billion active email users globally.
- Projections estimate nearly 4.4 billion email users by 2023.
- The sheer volume of email traffic is staggering, with over 3.13 million emails sent every second.
These figures highlight the massive scale and continued importance of email communication in both personal and professional contexts. While individual email accounts might be abandoned or deleted, the overall trend indicates a continuously growing number of active users and, therefore, a growing number of emails existing in various stages of storage and activity.
