VPN and Censorship Statistics
Most VPN statistics pages cite each other. Every figure here is computed from a primary source you can check yourself, or measured by us — and the method for each one is written down below it.
People living where blocking is measurable
1,531,753,442
internet users across the 6 countries where website blocking was confirmed in more than 1.0% of measurements
Read this carefully. A blocking rate is a share of measurements, not of people. This figure counts everyone online in a country where blocking was proven often enough to clear the threshold; it does not claim those people are individually blocked, and most of them are not, most of the time. It is a measure of how many live under a regime that demonstrably blocks, which is a different and more defensible claim.
For scale, the same World Bank figures put 43,578,111,958 people online across every country we have data for.
By country
Ranked by how many internet users live there, among countries over the threshold.
| Country | Internet users | Online | Confirmed blocking |
|---|---|---|---|
| India IN | 1,024,705,867 | 70.0% | 1.67% |
| Indonesia ID | 207,950,074 | 72.8% | 1.21% |
| Russian Federation RU | 135,426,285 | 94.4% | 4.27% |
| Iran, Islamic Rep. IR | 78,869,619 | 85.3% | 32.50% |
| Turkiye TR | 77,093,385 | 89.8% | 1.97% |
| Cuba CU | 7,708,212 | 70.5% | 16.39% |
How blocking has moved
Confirmed blocking rate over the last 120 days, smoothed with a 7-day trailing average. A country crossing a threshold matters far less than one that has doubled since spring, and only the series shows that.
- Iran, Islamic Rep.
- Cuba
- Russian Federation
- Turkiye
- India
- Indonesia
Show these numbers as a table
| Country | Start of window | Latest | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iran, Islamic Rep. | 22.85% | 34.03% | +11.18 pp |
| Cuba | 0.08% | 13.70% | +13.62 pp |
| Russian Federation | 1.53% | 4.72% | +3.19 pp |
| Turkiye | 2.29% | 2.44% | +0.16 pp |
| India | 1.80% | 1.95% | +0.15 pp |
| Indonesia | 3.77% | 1.41% | -2.36 pp |
Who arrives already behind a VPN
This one is ours. People run our IP checker to find out whether their connection is protected; a share of them turn out to already be on a datacenter or VPN address when they arrive. Nobody else publishes this, because nobody else has it.
| Country | Arrived via VPN or datacenter | Lookups |
|---|---|---|
| US | 7.6% (32) | 423 |
| OM | 0.0% (0) | 645 |
| SA | 0.0% (0) | 1,146 |
Last 90 days. Countries with fewer than 200 lookups are left out. These are lookups, not people — one person checking twice counts twice, and this audience is self-selected: they came to a VPN site to test a connection, so the rate is far above what a general website would see. That is the honest framing, and it is still a number worth having.
What is stored: a daily count per country, and how many of those were on a datacenter address. No IP addresses, no user agents, nothing that describes one person. It is a tally, not a log.
Sources and method
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Blocking rates — OONI
web_connectivitymeasurements, Sept. 12, 2026 to Oct. 12, 2026, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Only blocking OONI could prove is counted; unproven anomalies are excluded. Full table and downloads. -
Population and internet penetration — World Bank indicators
SP.POP.TOTLandIT.NET.USER.ZS. Latest available year per country (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025); the World Bank runs two to three years behind and we take the most recent figure each country has reported rather than dropping those that have not reported recently. - Arrival rates — our own IP checker, aggregated per day and country over the last 90 days.
- 9 countries measured by OONI have no World Bank internet figure and are excluded from the totals above.
Citing this page
Unblock Master, "VPN and Censorship Statistics", retrieved 15 October 2026. https://www.unblockmaster.com/vpn-statistics/ Blocking measurements: OONI (https://ooni.org), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). Population and internet penetration: World Bank open data.