The United Kingdom-based PreciseSecurity has revealed that spam messages account for 55 percent of the email sent across the world in 2019.
The research firm also revealed that, with more than half of the world population using e-mail, the total number of e-mail messages sent and received per day is expected to reach nearly 295 billion before 2019 finally comes to an end in a few days.
A breakdown of the figures shows that China generates more than 20 percent of global spam e-mails, which makes it the largest source of spam email globally. The report added that, during this year, 13.37 percent of global spam volume was created from IPs based in the United States.
Russia ranked third on this list with a 5.6 percent share, followed by Brazil and France. Germany generated 2.95 percent of global spam volume, while countries like India, Turkey, Singapore, and Vietnam hold around 2 percent share.
Meanwhile, the survey result also shows that the global annual spam e-mail rate decreased by 14 percent since 2012. In 2012, it amounted to 69 percent and kept falling in the next three years. In 2015, the annual spam e-mail rate dropped to 53 percent on a global level.
However, during the next two years, it moderately increased to 55 percent. In 2018, the combined number of e-mails sent and received per day reached more than 281 billion. Despite that, the total number of spam e-mails remained the same. Over the last three years, the annual spam e-mail rate kept the 55 percent share on the global level.
Also, Germany is the most targeted country by malicious spam e-mails as a significant part of spam messages is malicious, aiming to damage or hijack the user system.
Some of the most ordinary types of malicious spam globally include spyware, trojans, and ransomware. The Q1 2019 statistics show that Germany accounted for 11.88 percent of all measured e-mail antivirus detections. With a 6.24 percent target rate, Vietnam ranked second on the list. Russia represents the third most-targeted country with a 5.70 percent share of all e-mail antivirus triggers.