The data we need to build the Internet we want
Country reports
As of 2025, 73% of the world's population is online. But a connection is just the start.
Internet shutdowns
People can be cut off from the Internet by their own governments. We're currently following 11 ongoing shutdowns around the world.
Internet resilience
Or users can experience unreliable connections, or regular outages. That's why we track Internet resilience in 179 countries.
IXP Tracker
Around the world, 1,079 Internet exchange points are contributing to that resilience by making the Internet faster, cheaper, and more reliable.
Technical and policy choices shape the Internet. Internet Society Pulse helps make sure those choices are informed by data.
Read more on the Pulse blog
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Tracking Internet Shutdowns, 2019—2025
Between 2019 and 2025, Pulse recorded 916 Internet Shutdown events across 61 countries, spanning five continents.
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When Networks Stay Up, But Services Disappear
Iran’s June 2025 Internet shutdown was not simply a national blackout: many networks remained visible in global routing data, while services inside them became unreachable from outside.
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When the Lights Went Out: What the Iberian Blackout Taught Us About Internet Resilience
Study shows how traffic to core Internet infrastructure during the Iberian blackout dropped by up to 70%, but did not stop.
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Internet Society Pulse curates data from trusted sources, to measure the availability, evolution and resilience of the global Internet. We draw on the most recent and most representative data we have access to. See our list of data partners and find even more data in the Pulse API.