VPN (global market)

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2019: Russia entered the top ten countries where most use VPN services

Russia entered the top ten countries where most use VPN services. This is evidenced by the data of the Top10VPN portal, which specializes in the study of the relevant market, published at the end of November 2019.

Experts analyzed about 300 VPN applications hosted on Google Play and the App Store. The study covered 73 countries and was conducted over 12 months - from October 2018 to September 2019.

Russia entered the top ten countries where most use VPN services

Over this period of time, users around the world downloaded more than 480 million VPN applications, which is 54% more than a year earlier, when the volume of downloads was measured at 311 million.

Most of the installations of such software - 75% of the total - are accounted for by owners of Android devices. They downloaded 358.3 million applications that allow bypassing site locks. Owners of iPhone and tablets made 121.9 million downloads.

Indonesia is named the country with the most popular VPN services, where over a 12-month period, local residents downloaded about 75.5 million mobile VPN applications, which is 111% higher than a year ago.

The three leaders also included the United States and India, where 74.6 and 57 million downloads of such software were recorded, respectively. Russian users downloaded 10.9 million VPN applications over the year, which is 19% more than the 12-month period, the end of which fell in September 2018.

The jump in the number of downloads is especially pronounced in countries with unstable political situations. Compared to last year, the number of downloaded VPN applications in these regions has more than doubled, "said Simon Magliano, head of Top10VPN researchers.

It also follows from the Top10VPN report that 84.3% of the total number of downloads of VPN applications falls on free programs, and the most popular among users is the TurboVPN program, which was downloaded 51.3 million times.^[1]

2016-2018: Forecasts

• According to a report by Global Market Insights, the global market for VPN services in 2018 was $18 billion, and by 2024 it will reach $54 billion.
• Big Market Research data - $21.4 billion in 2018 and $69.2 in 2025.
• The most skeptical are Research And Markets analysts predicting $50.2 billion in 2024.
• The market dynamics of the last (and several next) years is given by Orbis Research forecast from 2016. The prediction of this company for 2018 is $20.6 billion, it is quite consistent with the "starting" data for this year from other research companies. And regarding the growth rate, analysts converge, predicting an average annual growth in the region of 20%^[2].

Geographically important market until 2026, according to the general opinion, North America will remain, which, according to various estimates, accounts for 30-50% of the world market. And in the future, analysts do not name the reasons why the situation can change significantly. In second place is the Asia-Pacific region, in third - Europe.

Of course, the fashion for cloud services could not but affect the VPN market. More and more large companies are investing in appropriate technologies. Among the main market players, analysts call Array Network, Cisco Systems, Virtuela, Contemporary Controls,, Oracle Cohesive Networks (all -), USA Chinese Huawei and Robustel, NCP engineering (), Germany Singtel (Singapore). Acquired their VPN and cloud market leaders:, and Web Google Microsoft Amazon Services.

The growth rate of the cloud VPN market is slightly higher than that of the VPN market as a whole (17.9% in 2020-2025 according to IndustryArc, 22% until 2023 according to Market Research Future). Market Research Future predicts a market size of $12 billion in 2023, IndustryArc - $18.5 billion in 2025.

Reports and Data also estimate an average annual growth of 22% annually, but the market in 2019, according to them, is only $2.77 billion, so in 2026 it will be only $8.78 billion.

The geographical distribution in the cloud VPN market is the same as in the "ordinary" market: North America leads (it accounts for more than 31% according to IndustryArc estimates), followed by the Asia-Pacific region and Europe.

Analysts explain the leading growth of cloud VPN, in particular, the transition to the clouds of small and medium-sized businesses that want to receive all services from the cloud, including communications security. As well as the increasing use of inter-machine interaction tools.

See also

• The directory of VPN systems and projects is available on TAdviser
• VPN (Russian market)
• VPN Solutions for Enterprise Networks
• Small and Medium Business VPN Routers (SMB)
• VPN and privacy (anonymity)
• Censorship (control) on the Internet. Experience of Russia
• Censorship (control and anonymity) on the Internet. World experience
• Censorship (control) on the Internet. China Experience

VPN protocols that have evolved over the past decades:

• Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)
• Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
• Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP)
• Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP)