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How many photos are taken globally every day?

Over 4 billion

Background

People snap over 4 billion photos around the world every day. That works out to about 46,000 pictures per second. Almost all of them are taken with smartphone cameras. In just one minute today, we make more photos than the entire 19th century produced.

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