Individuals using the Internet
% of population
- Published value. Native scale: 0 to 100 percent.
- Transform: value (no transform).
- Goalposts (fixed for all years; 2.5th and 97.5th percentiles of all observed country-years): worst = 0.222 scores 0, best = 96.3 scores 100.
- Direction: higher is better, no flip.
- Clip and scale: anything below the worst goalpost scores 0 and anything above the best scores 100; multiply by 100.
Where the numbers come from
- ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database produces the series — Household ICT surveys and data from national regulators reported to the ITU, with ITU estimates for missing years.
Source statement as published by the data provider (verbatim)
World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), uri: https://datahub.itu.int/
Internet users are individuals who have used the Internet (from any location) in the last 3 months. The Internet can be used via a computer, mobile phone, personal digital assistant, games machine, digital TV etc.
Every country row below has a “verify” link to this series filtered to that country, so each value can be checked against the source.
History
Countries ranked on this indicator
186 countries have a usable value for 2024 (4 carried forward from an earlier year); 31 have none within 3 years.
No official value for 2024: 31 countries
Aruba, American Samoa, Bermuda, Channel Islands, Curacao, Cayman Islands, Eritrea, Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Greenland, Guam, Isle of Man, St. Martin (French part), Myanmar, Northern Mariana Islands, New Caledonia, Korea, Dem. People's Rep., French Polynesia, Sudan, South Sudan, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Syrian Arab Republic, Turks and Caicos Islands, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, British Virgin Islands, Virgin Islands (U.S.), Vanuatu, Samoa, Kosovo, Yemen, Rep.