While VPNs seem like a tool you would only use to access restricted sites in a particular country, the truth is, the motives extend way farther. Many people globally use VPN for bypassing government surveillance and even generally to maintain a sense of privacy from any ill-seeking eyes.
Keeping this in mind, just recently, AtlasVPN has released a new report which sheds light on VPN usage during the first quarter of 2020.
To start with, focusing on 85 countries, it was found that VPNs were downloaded more than 134 million times – a staggering number to say the least. Among these, UAE was the country in which the highest number of downloads was found at 38.72% (1 out of every 2.85 people) followed by Qatar at 27.95% (1 out of every 3.58 people) and Oman at 23.82% (1 out of every 4.20 people).
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Surprisingly, VPNs are illegal in Qatar showing us that citizens can value their privacy more than caring for punishments mandated by authoritarian governments.
Make no mistake though, despite these countries being with the most users, the largest number of downloads stemmed from the USA at above 19 million. This is thanks to its huge population which makes perfect sense.
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On the other end, the countries with the least VPN users were Madagascar at 0.08% followed by Kenya at 0.31%, and Uzbekistan at ..
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