State of the Internet in France 2025 (Arcep / CREDOC)

Summary

• 94% of people used the internet in France in 2024, and 84% used it daily.p.11
• Incoming traffic at interconnection points is estimated at 50.8 Tbit/s at end 2024, up 9.2% on 2023.p.12
• About 47% of incoming traffic at the 4 main ISPs comes from 5 players: Netflix, Akamai, Facebook, Google and Amazon.p.12
• At end 2024, 87% of fixed and 70% of mobile consumer customers were connected over IPv6, and 35% of websites were available in IPv6.p.12
• In 2024, 1 in 3 people had used AI tools (+13 points in one year), and 77% of 18-24 year olds.p.11

Key insights

1. For 1 Gbit/s of outgoing traffic there were 9.9 Gbit/s of incoming traffic in 2024, against 10.6 Gbit/s in 2023.p.18
2. Netflix remains the largest single source of traffic with an estimated 12.3% of total traffic, down from 15.3% in 2023, while Amazon accounts for 8.6%.p.22
3. Traffic from the GAFAM category amounts to 25%.p.22
4. Data-centre greenhouse gas emissions, electricity consumption and water withdrawals rose by 11%, 8% and 19% respectively in one year.p.13
5. The fleet of internet boxes and TV decoders consumed 3.5 TWh.p.13
6. France ranks 2nd among the 100 countries with the most internet users for IPv6 use, at 68.6% in February 2025, behind India (73.4%).p.26
7. The IPv6 rate of email hosting rose from 8% to 23% in two years, against 3 points over the previous 4 years.p.26
8. Free forecasts its mobile IPv6 activation rate to rise from 1% at end 2024 to 77% at end 2025.p.29
9. Only 34.8% of websites are accessible in IPv6, an increase of 15 points compared with 2021.p.30