Email

50 billion – the number of e-mails dispatched every day wordwide; in 2001 the traffic was less than 12 billion

88 per cent of e-mails are junk including about 1 per cent which are virus-infected

32 – The average number of e-mail messages received per person per day. This is rising by 84 per cent each year

440 million – the number of electronic mailboxes in use, including 170 million corporate ones, growing by 32 per cent per year