Global Internet usage

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Global Internet Usage is the number of people who use the Internet worldwide.

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Internet users

In 2015, the International Telecommunication Union estimated about 3.2 billion people, or almost half of the world's population, would be online by the end of the year. Of them, about 2 billion would be from developing countries, including 89 million from least developed countries. [1] [2] According to Hootsuite, the number of Global Internet users has already reached almost 5 billion, or about 53% of the global population as of 2021. [3] The flat world of information has been created thanks to the Internet and globalization. This phenomenon allows individuals to have access to cultural and ideological beliefs without having to go to other countries, resulting in immobile acculturation. [4]

Internet users per 100 inhabitants Source: International Telecommunication Union. Internet users per 100 inhabitants ITU.svg
Internet users per 100 inhabitants
Source: International Telecommunication Union.
Worldwide Internet users [7]
Users20052010201720192021
World population [8] 6.5 billion6.9 billion7.4 billion7.75 billion7.9 billion
Worldwide16%30%48%53.6%63%
In developing world8%21%41.3%47%57%
In developed world51%67%81%86.6%90%
Internet users by region [7]
Region20052010201720192021
Africa2%10%21.8%27.7%39.7%
Americas36%49%65.9%75.9%83.2%
Arab States8%26%43.7%55.2%70.3%
Asia and Pacific9%23%43.9%48.9%64.3%
Commonwealth of
Independent States		10%34%67.7%76.3%83.7%
Europe46%67%79.6%81.7%89.5%
Internet users in 2015 as a percentage of a country's population Source: International Telecommunication Union. InternetPenetrationWorldMap.svg
Source: International Telecommunication Union.
   
Number of Internet users in 2012 Source: International Telecommunication Union. InternetUsersWorldMap.svg
Source: International Telecommunication Union.
These maps illustrate the growth in the percentage of individuals using the Internet from 1990 to 2014. Percentage of individuals using the Internet 1990-2014.gif
These maps illustrate the growth in the percentage of individuals using the Internet from 1990 to 2014.
Number of Internet users in 2011 This map illustrates the total number of Internet users in a country as well as the percentage of the population that had Internet access in 2011. Source: Information Geographies at the Oxford Internet Institute. InternetPopulation2011 DeSabbata Graham OII.png
Number of Internet users in 2011
This map illustrates the total number of Internet users in a country as well as the percentage of the population that had Internet access in 2011.
Source: Information Geographies at the Oxford Internet Institute.
Global internet access graph, 2000–2018

Broadband usage

Worldwide broadband subscriptions [12]
Users2007201020162019 [13]
World population [14] 6.6 billion6.9 billion7.3 billion7.75 billion
Fixed broadband5%8%11.9%14.5%
Developing world2%4%8.2%11.2%
Developed world18%24%30.1%33.6%
Mobile broadband4%11%49.4%83%
Developing world1%4%40.9%75.2%
Developed world19%43%90.3%121.7%
   
Broadband subscriptions by region [15]
SubscriptionPlace2007201020142019 [16]
FixedAfrica0.1%0.2%0.4%0.4%
Americas11%14%17%22%
Arab States1%2%3%8.1%
Asia and Pacific3%6%8%14.4%
Commonwealth of
Independent States		2%8%14%19.8%
Europe18%24%28%31.9%
MobileAfrica0.2%2%19%34%
Americas6%23%59%104.4%
Arab States0.8%5%25%67.3%
Asia and Pacific3%7%23%89%
Commonwealth of
Independent States		0.2%22%49%85.4%
Europe15%29%64%97.4%
Fixed broadband Internet subscriptions in 2012 as a percentage of a country's population Source: International Telecommunication Union. FixedBroadbandInternetPenetrationWorldMap.svg
Fixed broadband Internet subscriptions in 2012
as a percentage of a country's population
Source: International Telecommunication Union.
   
Mobile broadband Internet subscriptions in 2012 as a percentage of a country's population Source: International Telecommunication Union. MobileBroadbandInternetPenetrationWorldMap 2013.svg
Mobile broadband Internet subscriptions in 2012
as a percentage of a country's population
Source: International Telecommunication Union.
Broadband affordability in 2011 This map presents an overview of broadband affordability, as the relationship between average yearly income per capita and the cost of a broadband subscription (data referring to 2011). Source: Information Geographies at the Oxford Internet Institute. Broadband Affordability.png
Broadband affordability in 2011
This map presents an overview of broadband affordability, as the relationship between average yearly income per capita and the cost of a broadband subscription (data referring to 2011).
Source: Information Geographies at the Oxford Internet Institute.

Internet hosts

The Internet Systems Consortium provides account for the number of the worldwide number of IPv4 hosts (see below). On 2019 this internet domain survey was discontinued as it does not account of IPv6 hosts, and therefore might be misleading. [20]

Source: Internet Systems Consortium. Internet Hosts Count log.svg
Source: Internet Systems Consortium.

Web index

The Web index is a composite statistic designed and produced by the World Wide Web Foundation. It provides a multi-dimensional measure of the World Wide Web's contribution to development and human rights globally. It covers 86 countries as of 2014, the latest year for which the index has been compiled. [22] [23] It incorporates indicators that assess the areas of universal access, freedom and openness, relevant content, and empowerment, which indicate economic, social, and political impacts of the Web.

Map showing the score of the countries included in the Web index. World Map of Web Index 2014.svg
Map showing the score of the countries included in the Web index.

IPv4 addresses

The Carna Botnet was a botnet of 420,000 devices created by hackers to measure the extent of the Internet in what the creators called the "Internet Census of 2012". [24] [25]

World map of 24-hour relative average utilization of IPv4 addresses observed using ICMP ping requests as part of the Internet Census of 2012 (Carna Botnet), June - October 2012. Key: from red (high), to yellow, green (average), light blue, and dark blue (low). Carnabotnet geovideo lowres.gif
World map of 24-hour relative average utilization of IPv4 addresses observed using ICMP ping requests as part of the Internet Census of 2012 (Carna Botnet), June – October 2012. Key: from red (high), to yellow, green (average), light blue, and dark blue (low).

Languages

Content languages for websites WebsitesByLanguagePieChart.svg
   
Percentage of Internet users by language InternetUsersByLanguagePieChart.svg

Censorship and surveillance

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Sources: Freedom on the Net, OpenNet Initiative, Reporters Without Borders.
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