Global Internet usage

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.

This phenomenon allows individuals to have access to cultural and ideological beliefs without having to go to other countries, resulting in immobile acculturation.

In 2019 this internet domain survey was discontinued as it does not account of IPv6 hosts, and therefore might be misleading.

It provides a multi-dimensional measure of the World Wide Web's contribution to development and human rights globally.

[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.

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Internet users per 100 inhabitants
Source: International Telecommunication Union . [ 5 ] [ 6 ]
Source: International Telecommunication Union . [ 9 ]
Source: International Telecommunication Union . [ 9 ]
These maps illustrate the growth in the percentage of individuals using the Internet from 1990 to 2014. [ 10 ]
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 . [ 11 ]
Global internet access graph, 2000–2018
Fixed broadband Internet subscriptions in 2012
as a percentage of a country's population
Source: International Telecommunication Union . [ 17 ]
Mobile broadband Internet subscriptions in 2012
as a percentage of a country's population
Source: International Telecommunication Union . [ 18 ]
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 . [ 19 ]
Source: Internet Systems Consortium . [ 21 ]
Map showing the score of the countries included in the Web index.
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. [ 26 ] Key: from red (high), to yellow, green (average), light blue, and dark blue (low).
Sources: Freedom on the Net , [ 29 ] OpenNet Initiative , [ 30 ] [ 31 ] Reporters Without Borders . [ 32 ] [ 33 ]