How much of humanity has access to the internet?
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Around 37 percent of the world’s population, or 2.9 billion people, have still never used the Internet — and most of them live in developing countries, according to an estimate from a U.N. agency for information and communication technologies. Show This is despite the pandemic leading to a “covid connectivity boost” in which the number of people who accessed the Internet rose to around 4.9 billion this year, up 17 percent from 2019, in part because school closures and searches for health updates pushed more people online, the International Telecommunication Union said. The “unusually sharp rise” from 2019 is “good news for global development,” it said, but the data still shows that the “world’s poorest [are] being left far behind.” The coronavirus pandemic has exposed a deep digital divide, for schoolchildren and employees in particular, as lockdowns pushed lessons and some jobs onto the Web. In the United States, millions of students and some of their teachers struggled without Internet at home, more so in rural and poorer parts of the country, prompting efforts to unlock funding to help families, schools and libraries provide virtual education. Around the world, a generation of poor children also found themselves shut out of learning and at risk of falling behind because they could not afford an Internet connection, let alone a laptop. The latest connectivity numbers show progress during the pandemic, said Doreen Bogdan-Martin, the director of the agency’s telecommunication development bureau. However, she added, across the U.N.’s 46 least-developed countries, which include Afghanistan, Yemen, Niger and Mozambique, “almost three quarters of people have never connected,” facing obstacles such as poverty, illiteracy or limited electricity. The divide is prominent in rural parts of these countries, where residents are four times less likely to go online than in urban regions, but it also runs along gender lines, leaving four out of every five women in the least-developed countries offline. Read more: 7.5 billion Internet Users by 2030. PHOTO: Cybercrime Magazine. Posted at 13:34h in Blogs, Podcasts 90 percent of the human population, aged 6 years and older, will be online by 2030 – Steve Morgan, Editor-in-Chief Sausalito, Calif. – Jul. 18, 2019 It’s a common question: How many people are on the Internet? Or, more important, how many people are at risk of being cyber attacked? To answer: The number of people that are online at a given point in time. So, exactly how many people are online today — and what will that look like over the next 5 to 10 years? In 2019, there are more than 4.4 billion users online. We first answered this question exactly one year ago. On July 18, 2018, Internet traffic was pushing nearly 3 billion users (which was roughly 51 percent of the total number of people with Internet access). Going further back in time, in 2015 there were 2 billion people online. Looking ahead, Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that there will be 6 billion Internet users by 2022 (75 percent of the projected world population of 8 billion) — and more than 7.5 billion Internet users by 2030 (90 percent of the projected world population of 8.5 billion, 6 years of age and older). The number of people connected to the Internet, not to mention the number of Things (IoT devices), is staggering. A growing corps of cyber fighters will be needed to protect the world’s citizens from cybercrime, which is predicted to reach $6 trillion annually by 2021, up from $3 trillion in 2015. But, we’ve got a real numbers problem with that. Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that there will be 3.5 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs by 2021, up from 1 million in 2014. This challenge has created a cybersecurity market that will be worth $1 trillion between 2017 and 2021 (5 year cumulative spending on cybersecurity products and services). It’s not all gloom and doom. Cybercrime is a natural outgrowth of the expanding cyberattack surface, and it should be expected. A realistic view of the risks and threats we face will help organizations and consumers to do a better job of protecting themselves. Here’s a list of the 100 largest countries, by population, with the approximate percentage of people connected to the Internet: Loading… * All figures are approximate. Publicly available data sources include Wikipedia, Internet World Stats, Statista, and others. For more cybercrime and cybersecurity facts, figures, predictions, and statistics, go to the 2019 Cybersecurity Almanac, which is co-published by Cisco and Cybersecurity Ventures. – Steve Morgan is founder and Editor-in-Chief at Cybersecurity Ventures. Go here to read all of my blogs and articles covering cybersecurity. Go here to send me story tips, feedback and suggestions. – Connor Morgan, a Cybercrime Magazine summer intern, contributed to this list. What percentage of humans have access to the internet?A total of 5.03 billion people around the world use the internet today – equivalent to 63.1 percent of the world's total population. Internet users continue to grow too, with the latest data indicating that the world's connected population grew by almost 180 million in the 12 months to July 2022.
What percentage of the world has internet access 2022?Worldwide digital population July 2022. As of April 2022, there were more than five billion internet users worldwide, which is 63.1 percent of the global population.
What percentage of the world has access to the internet 2020?65.6 percent of the entire world's population has internet access. There are 4.28 billion unique mobile internet users worldwide, which makes up 54.6 percent of the global population. Internet users spend an average of 6 hours and 56 minutes online every day.
Does majority of the world have access to the internet?Nearly 3 billion people – or 37% of the world's population – have never used the internet, according to the United Nations, despite the Covid-19 pandemic driving people online.
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