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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 ...
Below is a sortable list of countries by number of Internet users as of 2024. Internet users are defined as persons who accessed the Internet in the last 12 months from any device, including mobile phones. [ Note 1 ] Percentage is the percentage of a country's population that are Internet users. Estimates are derived either from household ...
e. Internet access is a facility or service that provides connectivity for a computer, a computer network, or other network device to the Internet, and for individuals or organizations to access or use applications such as email and the World Wide Web. Internet access is offered for sale by an international hierarchy of Internet service ...
In 2019, the United States ranked 3rd in the world for the number of internet users (behind China and India), with 312.32 million users. [ 3 ] As of 2019, 90% of adults in America use the internet, either irregularly or frequently. [ 4 ] The United States ranks #1 in the world with 7,000 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) according to the CIA. [ 5 ]
Fixed-broadband access refers to high-speed fixed (wired) access to the public Internet at downstream speeds equal to, or greater than, 256 kbit/s. This includes satellite Internet access, cable modem, DSL, fibre-to-the-home/building, and other fixed (wired) broadband subscriptions. The totals are measured irrespective of the method of payment.
Freedom on the Net. Freedom on the Net is an annual report providing analytical reports and numerical ratings regarding the state of Internet freedom for countries worldwide, published by the American non-profit research and advocacy group Freedom House. [1] The countries surveyed represent a sample with a broad range of geographical diversity ...
This is a list of countries by Internet connection speed for average and median data transfer rates for Internet access by end-users. The difference between average and median speeds is the way individual measurements are aggregated.
Since July 2008 almost two thirds of Australian households have had internet access, with broadband connections outnumbering dial-up two to one. [64] According to the recent ABS statistics the non-dial-up services outnumber dial up services 3.6 to 1. The most common form of residential broadband is ADSL, which uses existing copper telephone lines.