Estimated emails sent worldwide since midnight UTC, including automated and unsolicited mail.

Nobody counts this as it happens. EarthNow takes a published figure for the whole day, divides it by the 86,400 seconds in a day, and multiplies by the seconds elapsed since midnight UTC. So the value climbs smoothly and is the right order of magnitude — but the smoothness is arithmetic, not observation. Nothing happening in the world is being watched in real time.

value = daily total ÷ 86,400 × seconds since 00:00 UTC

A consequence worth knowing: the counter resets at midnight UTC, not at your midnight. And because every signal advances at a constant rate, this page cannot tell you whether today is unusual. For that you need a measurement.

~361.6 billion emails sent and received per day.

Daily total

361.60B emails

Published by

Statista (2024)

The figure is theirs; the running total is ours. Cite them for the number, and EarthNow for what it looks like as it accumulates.

• Marketing automation, which sends without marginal cost
• Spam filtering, which shapes what is still worth sending
• Messaging apps, which have taken most genuine correspondence elsewhere