about 5.3 billion
About how many photos are taken around the world every single day?
That works out to tens of thousands of photos taken somewhere in the world every second.
Source: Photutorial photography statistics (2024) photutorial.com
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About what share of all photos taken in 2024 were captured on a smartphone?
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about 14.3 trillion
About how many photos are estimated to exist in total, stored anywhere in the world?
Decades of accumulated digital photos have piled up into an almost unimaginable total.
Source: Photutorial photography statistics (2024) photutorial.com
about 20 photos a day
About how many photos does the average American take per day?
Smartphones have made casual, everyday photo-taking constant compared to the film era.
Source: Photutorial photography statistics (2024) photutorial.com
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