IP2Location Firewall List by Country is a free web service allowing users to export an IP address list of the targeted countries for firewall filtering purposes. The service supports a wide range of formats such as Apache .htaccess, Linux iptables, CIDR, Netmask, Inverse Netmask, IIS web.config, Cisco ACL, PeerGuardian2, network-object, Cisco Bitbucket, Juniper Junos and MikroTik.
In this report, we are reviewing the total number of list exports by country in 2020. In 2020, China, Russia, and the United States claim the top 3 spots. Their percentage stands at 10.65%, 5.26% and 4.22% respectively. Looking at the statistics of the top 10 data, the cumulative percentage stands at 33.45%, slightly more than one-third of the total downloads. Below are the top 10 targeted countries by list exports.
- China, CN 10.65%
- Russia, RU 5.26%
- United States, US 4.22%
- India, IN 2.61%
- Brazil, BR 2.24%
- Iran, IR 2.06%
- Germany, DE 1.76%
- France, FR 1.66%
- Afghanistan, AF 1.62%
- Vietnam, VN 1.37%
If we review the data at the continent level, countries in Asia are taking the lead with 35.59%, followed by Europe 31.51%, then North America 11.70%, Africa 10.71%, South America 5.51%, Oceania 4.30% and lastly Antarctica 0.68%. Although only a few countries in Asia made their way up to the above top 10 list, the overall downloads of all targeted countries in Asia has crowned it as the leader.
