Live estimate · modelled from a dated total · how it's made
People coming online by mobile this year
- 160 million Actual · 2025 · GSMA
- 5.07 new users per second, modelled
- +0 Since you opened this page
Putting it in perspective
- Per second
- 5.07
- Per minute
- 304
- Per hour
- 18,252
- Per day
- 438,056
- Still to come this year
- 41,027,818
Counted in new users.
How this number is made
- Source
- GSMA, GSMA warns of emerging global AI divide as three billion people remain offline and smartphone component costs soar
“Around 160 million people came online in 2025, down from 190 million the previous year, while 3.1 billion people continue to live within the footprint of mobile broadband networks but do not use mobile internet – the “usage gap”.”
- Step 01
Take GSMA’s figure for 2025: 160 million.
- Step 02
Spread it evenly over a year of 31,557,600 seconds (365.25 days): about 5.07 new users per second.
- Step 03
Count from 00:00 UTC on 1 January of the current year, so the number resets every New Year.
- On screen
- The result of those steps, recomputed four times a second in your browser. Nothing on this page is fetched live from the publisher.
- Why this can't be exact
- Real activity is not spread evenly: it clusters in working hours, weekdays and seasons, so the count runs ahead or behind the true figure at any given moment. It runs at the 2025 pace until a figure for the current year is published. Digits beyond the first two or three are the model ticking, not extra precision.
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StatOrigin. (2026). People coming online by mobile this year [Live counter, extrapolated from GSMA]. Retrieved 29 Sep 2026, from https://statorigin.org/live/new-mobile-internet-users
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