The global outage will cost more than 310 billion yuan a day, with the United States and China most affected.

CTOnews.com, November 9 news, the Internet has penetrated into all aspects of modern society, people's life, work, study are inseparable from the support of the Internet. But if one day, countries and regions around the world are unable to access the Internet, how many economic losses will it cause?

Tuyuan Pixabay according to a research by a network security company, the economic loss of a day of global outage will be as high as 43 billion US dollars (CTOnews.com Note: currently about 313.04 billion yuan). This figure is calculated by NetBlocks, a platform for monitoring Internet availability and network outages.

The United States and China are the two worst affected countries, with losses of $11 billion (80.1 billion yuan) and $10 billion (72.8 billion yuan), respectively, according to the study. The Internet coverage in the United States is very high, and the outage will affect most of its economic activities, including personal consumption and business transactions. China's Internet is also well developed, and the outage will affect the operation of its manufacturing and export industries, and researchers say China's losses may also be underestimated.

Other heavily affected countries include the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, India, South Korea, France, Italy and Canada, where the Internet mainly affects online shopping, banking, innovative services and technology.

However, not all countries will suffer heavy losses as a result of Internet outages. in some countries where the Internet is less popular, such as some island countries in Oceania, the loss of Internet outages is less than $50,000 (about 360000 yuan) a day. The economies of these countries are mainly dependent on agriculture, fisheries and tourism, and are not closely related to the Internet.