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In 2013, about how much data did the world generate in total that year?

Answerabout 4.4 zettabytes

That 2013 figure looks tiny compared to today's projections, showing just how fast data growth has accelerated.

Source: Wikipedia, Big data (citing IDC) (2013) en.wikipedia.org

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By 2020, how much data was the world projected to generate in a single year?

Answerabout 64 zettabytes

Annual global data creation has been on a steep, sustained upward curve for over a decade.

Source: Wikipedia, Big data (2020) en.wikipedia.org

As of 2012, about how much data was the world generating every single day?

Answerabout 2.5 exabytes/day

That daily figure works out to roughly 900 exabytes a year, back in 2012.

Source: Wikipedia, Big data (2012) en.wikipedia.org

In 2007, the world's one-way broadcast capacity (TV/radio) was estimated as equivalent to how many newspapers per person, per day?

Answerabout 174 newspapers/person/day

Researchers used the 'newspaper equivalent' as a vivid way to measure the sheer scale of broadcast information flow.

Source: Hilbert & López, Science journal, via Wikipedia (2007) en.wikipedia.org

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