Breach costs by region

Average total cost of a data breach as published in IBM/Ponemon "Cost of a Data Breach" reports, by report year, in US dollars. Early studies published only in local currency are left out, not converted. Regional figures are CyphrQ’s own unweighted average of the markets each year’s study reports for that region (North America: United States, Canada; Latin America: Latin America, Brazil; Europe: United Kingdom, Germany, Benelux, France, Italy, Scandinavia; Middle East & North Africa: Middle East; Asia: Japan, India, ASEAN; Australia & New Zealand: Australia; Sub-Saharan Africa: South Africa); IBM does not publish these regional averages, and a region with one market is that market alone. Hover a figure to see which markets it uses. Years with no published figure are left out (the series starts in 2006); "Not in report" means that year’s study did not cover the region, not that it had no breaches. Averages are not added up across years: selecting several years on the map shows their average. Map colours run from yellow (lower cost) to dark red (higher cost), relative to the regions shown. ▲ / ▼: above or below that year’s global average cost per breach.

Sources

• IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report: 2026, 2024, 2022, 2020, 2019
• IBM/Ponemon 2018 Cost of a Data Breach Study: Global Overview (PDF)
• IBM Australia newsroom, 21 Jun 2017 (2017 Cost of Data Breach Study)
• Ponemon 2017 Cost of Data Breach Study: United States (PDF), Figure 2 12-year history
• Ponemon Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Analysis: 2015, 2013