Government Internet Shutdowns Cost $7.69B in 2024 1/24/25, 11:17 AM Chart showing the most common reasons for internet shutdowns in 2024. As the charts show, while more than half of internet shutdown incidents were due to exams, their economic impact was much more limited. These shutdowns may have been numerous but they were typically just a couple of hours long. Nevertheless, this approach to preventing cheating on exams still cost the world economy over $400 million and disrupted the lives of millions of innocent people. At the other end of the scale, the internet outages imposed due to conflict were few but very drawn out, causing severe additional harm in countries whose people were already suffering. https://www.top10vpn.com/research/cost-of-internet-shutdowns/ Page 15 of 28