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How many emails are stored in Gmail accounts globally?

About 300 billion

Background

Gmail accounts store about 300 billion emails worldwide. Gmail has more than 1.8 billion active users. At launch in 2004, offering 1 GB of storage was a big surprise. Today every user gets 15 GB for free.

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