If the world’s internet is shut down for a day, the loss will be 43 billion US dollars. Most of these huge losses will be borne by China and America. News the People’s Reporter.
Recently, this information has been reported by Atlas VPN. According to the results of the survey, if the internet service is shut down for a single day around the world, the loss of China will be 10 billion US dollars and the loss of America will be 11 billion US dollars.
In addition, the loss in the case of the United Kingdom will be 3 billion, Japan 2.7 billion and in Germany this loss will be 1.5 billion US dollars.
According to the report, if the internet is shut down for one day around the world, the least affected areas will be small island states like Tuvalu, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru and Micronesia.
According to the report, Russia has suffered the most damage due to internet shutdowns in 2022. The loss amounted to 21.59 billion US dollars. In 2022, the Internet was shut down in Russia for a total of 7,407 hours due to various incidents. Three quarters of the total population of Russia were affected by the incident.
In the same year, India’s loss due to internet shutdowns amounted to US$ 184.3 million. 120 million people in India were affected due to government shutdowns at different times.
Countries like Iran, Myanmar, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan have suffered a lot due to internet shutdown in 2022.
In 2022, the total cost of internet shutdowns due to government decisions around the world stood at 24.6 billion US dollars, which is 337 percent more than in 2021.