Government Internet Shutdowns Cost $7.69B in 2024 1/24/25, 11:17 AM assembly. What is the Cost of Internet Shutdowns Report? This Global Cost of Internet Shutdowns report calculates the total economic impact of every major deliberate internet outage and social media shutdown around the world in 2024. This kind of deliberate outage is internet censorship in its most extreme form. Not only do they infringe on citizens’ digital rights but they are also catastrophic acts of national economic self-sabotage. Government internet outages in 28 countries lasting almost 89,000 hours cost the global economy $7.69 billion in 2024. While the cost of internet shutdowns may have dropped by 15.8% in 2024 compared to last year, there were more hours of deliberate internet disruption than ever before. The duration of internet shutdowns was up 12% in 2024 compared to 2023. This was the highest number of hours in a single year to date. There were also almost double the hours of internet blackouts (92.3%) compared to last year, but 26.1% fewer hours of social media shutdowns. https://www.top10vpn.com/research/cost-of-internet-shutdowns/ Page 3 of 28