Notes:

  • Population and Internet population numbers are generally as of 2014, and are sourced directly from the World Bank public access repositories. See, for example: Population Figures for more information.
  • The Regional Internet Registries (RIR) uses two letter codes for countries. These codes almost always agree with ISO3166-1-Alpha-2 (ISO 2 letter codes). However, RIR databases also contain some country codes that are not in ISO3166-1-Alpha-2 because they are obsolete (eg: SU), are sporadically used regional designations (eg: EU), alternates (eg: 'UK' versus 'GB') or are simply errors.
  • The country codes used (ISO3011-1-Alpha-2 for allocation-to-country mapping, ISO3166-1-Alpha-3 for population-to-country mapping) and for official country names are from ISO, obtained from here. Some minor stylistic changes have been made to a few country names to better align with more commonly recognized forms.
  • The per-capita numbers are calculated with the total internet population per-country. (The World Bank supplies the "internet population" as a percentage of the population)
  • The network sizes are calculated totalling up the sizes of network allocations assigned to each country as per RIR information .
  • The first grouping "By Infections" is the total number of infections in the corresponding country, and its percentage of the total number of infections the CBL knows about.
  • "By Spam Volume" is the total amount of spam we've observed coming from the corresponding country, and its percentage of the total. Please note that the very high volume associated with the United States is because of a very small number of a particular infection that "thinks" our spam sensors are their outbound SMTP relays. As such, instead of receiving a fraction of the spambot's spam, we receive all of it.
  • "By Network Infected", this is the percentage of the IP address netblocks assigned to the country that are infected. For example, 8% means that 8% of all IP addresses allocated to the country are infected with something we can detect.
  • "Per-Capita Infections" is the percentage of the population who have Internet access that are infected. As an example, a "12%" means that 12% of the Internet-connected population of that country has an infection that we can detect.
  • "Spam Per Capita" is the amount of spam we see from the country expressed in terms of the Internet-connected poopulation. for example, a "3" means that we've seen 3 spams for every Internet-connected user in the corresponding country. Note that the US figures are inflated for the same reason the "Spam Volume" figure is.

    • We now publish CSV format files that contain the basic infection/traffic numbers for all countries (including population), ASNs and domains.

    The top 20 worst countries (Prepared: 2017-12-18)
    Rank By Infections By Spam Volume By Network Infected Per-Capita Infections Spam Per-Capita
      Country Infections %of CBL Country %of traffic Country Rate Country Rate Country /capita
    1India228174616.1%China30.3%Saint Lucia2e+02%Algeria3.21%Seychelles9.87
    2China161689011.4%United States of America11.7%Mayotte39%The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia2.83%Antigua and Barbuda0.53
    3Iran (Islamic Republic of)8634926.08%Canada6.71%Togo19%Iran (Islamic Republic of)2.77%Netherlands0.206
    4Vietnam7559765.33%Brazil6.13%Guinea-Bissau14%State of Palestine2.46%Canada0.156
    5Egypt6248674.4%Netherlands4.48%Yemen13%Thailand2.33%Czechia0.135
    6Turkey5867764.13%Vietnam4.09%Laos9.8%Tunisia2.32%Kyrgyzstan0.12
    7Brazil5748184.05%France3.31%Syrian Arab Republic6.3%Mauritius2.16%Montenegro0.118
    8Thailand5516143.89%South Africa3.21%Albania5.8%Egypt2.15%South Africa0.0863
    9Mexico5016053.53%Italy3.12%Comoros5.5%Timor-Leste2.15%Bosnia and Herzegovina0.0824
    10Russian Federation4981693.51%Germany2.97%Montenegro5.3%Ecuador2.1%Poland0.0764
    11Indonesia4698493.31%Poland2.67%Democratic Republic of the Congo5.3%Maldives2%Slovakia0.0738
    12Pakistan2947632.08%United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland2%Iraq5.2%Mongolia1.94%Jamaica0.0683
    13Philippines2464421.74%Russian Federation1.69%Cambodia5%Antigua and Barbuda1.74%Vietnam0.0668
    14Algeria2301091.62%Czechia1.56%El Salvador5%Vietnam1.71%Singapore0.0608
    15Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)2184411.54%India1.09%State of Palestine4.9%Gabon1.67%Italy0.06
    16Colombia2125101.5%Spain1.07%Mongolia4.6%Syrian Arab Republic1.48%Saint Kitts and Nevis0.0438
    17Argentina1820891.28%Iran (Islamic Republic of)1%Myanmar4.6%Turkey1.46%France0.0429
    18United States of America1708441.2%Seychelles0.687%The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia4.5%Bosnia and Herzegovina1.42%Mongolia0.0412
    19Peru1483221.04%Indonesia0.549%Maldives4.5%Albania1.37%The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia0.0389
    20Ecuador1460711.03%TW0.529%Nepal4.5%Seychelles1.35%Serbia0.0388