Government Internet Shutdowns Cost $7.69B in 2024 1/24/25, 11:17 AM How Much Did Internet Shutdowns Cost Us in 2019? $8.07 billion: economic cost of internet shutdowns globally in 2019 – an increase of 235% since 2015/16 134 major internet shutdowns took place in 22 countries during 2019 19,207 hours: total duration of major government internet outages around the world Iraq: suffered the most economically from internet blackouts, followed by Sudan and India WhatsApp: most-blocked platform, experiencing 7,044 total hours of government internet censorship Read the full 2019 Cost of Internet Shutdowns Report Internet Shutdowns Research Methodology We review every documented government internet outage and social media shutdown globally in a given year. We include deliberate national internet blackouts along with regional disruptions that are on a sufficient scale to be economically significant. The nature, duration and severity of each internet outage are sourced from Netblocks real-time graphic data and reports, IODA, the SFLC.IN Internet Shutdown Tracker, and OONI’s internet censorship measurement tools. The economic cost of each internet shutdown is calculated using the Netblocks Cost of https://www.top10vpn.com/research/cost-of-internet-shutdowns/ Page 25 of 28