Unrelenting appetite for Internet data continues to drive demand for international data and therefore bandwidth usage. That said, the 25 per cent growth in bandwidth usage in 2022 is more modest than in recent years, which were marked by the effects of COVID-19.
At 17 per cent, the increase in bandwidth usage per Internet user was also lower in 2022 than in the previous year. The compound average growth rate over the past five years is 33 per cent for overall international bandwidth usage and 22 per cent for usage per Internet user.
In Africa, international bandwidth usage shows the fastest growth (37 per cent), while the fastest growing region in terms of bandwidth usage per Internet user is the Americas (26 per cent).