Spam: share of global email traffic 2007-2017

Global spam volume as percentage of total e-mail traffic from 2007 to 2017

The data displays the share of global spam as percentage of total e-mail traffic from 2007 to 2017. In the most recently reported period, spam messages accounted for 39.2% of e-mail traffic worldwide, the lowest share every and down from 59.8% in 2016.

2007 88.5
2008 92.6
2009 88.1
2010 84.9
2011 77
2012 75.2
2013 69.2
2014 59.7
2015 54.1
2016 59.8
2017 39.2