Internet use

Share of the population that used the internet in the last three months.

measured by: World Bank
originally from: International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators
years covered: 1990–2025
subject: Digital

Higher is generally taken as better.

How this is measured

Compiled by the International Telecommunication Union from national household surveys, and by estimation where no survey exists. "Used the internet" means any use from any device in the last three months, so it counts access rather than the quality of it. The estimated years are marked in neither this dataset nor the map, so treat single-year jumps in poorer countries with care. It measures adoption, not liberty — a country can connect everybody and censor all of it — so it is not in the digital freedom index, only in the builder and the formula editor.

Ranked for 2024

154 countries and territories have a figure for 2024. This is the most recent year the series covers well; the viewer holds every year from 1990.

#	Country	Region	Internet use
1	United Arab Emirates	Middle East & North Africa	100.0%
2	Saudi Arabia	Middle East & North Africa	100.0%
3	Denmark	Europe	99.8%
4	Kuwait	Middle East & North Africa	99.7%
5	Norway	Europe	99.0%
6	Luxembourg	Europe	98.8%
7	Iceland	Europe	98.2%
8	Qatar	Middle East & North Africa	98.1%
9	Malaysia	Asia-Pacific	98.0%
10	South Korea	Asia-Pacific	97.9%
11	Switzerland	Europe	97.3%
12	Ireland	Europe	97.2%
13	Netherlands	Europe	97.0%
14	Brunei	Asia-Pacific	96.3%
15	Australia	Asia-Pacific	96.1%
16	Belgium	Europe	95.8%
17	Spain	Europe	95.8%
18	Jordan	Middle East & North Africa	95.6%
19	Chile	Americas	95.6%
20	Sweden	Europe	95.5%
21	United Kingdom	Europe	95.5%
22	Oman	Middle East & North Africa	95.3%
23	Austria	Europe	94.9%
24	United States	Americas	94.7%
25	Russia	Eurasia	94.4%
26	Canada	Americas	94.4%
27	Belarus	Eurasia	94.3%
28	Hungary	Europe	93.8%
29	Finland	Europe	93.7%
30	North Macedonia	Europe	93.6%
31	New Zealand	Asia-Pacific	93.5%
32	Germany	Europe	93.5%
33	Kazakhstan	Eurasia	93.4%
34	Latvia	Europe	92.7%
35	Bahamas	Americas	92.5%
36	Estonia	Europe	92.2%
37	Kyrgyzstan	Eurasia	92.0%
38	China	Asia-Pacific	92.0%
39	Uruguay	Americas	92.0%
40	Romania	Europe	91.3%
41	Bhutan	Asia-Pacific	91.3%
42	Morocco	Middle East & North Africa	91.2%
43	Dominican Republic	Americas	91.0%
44	Thailand	Asia-Pacific	90.9%
45	Slovenia	Europe	90.8%
46	Azerbaijan	Eurasia	90.4%
47	Jamaica	Americas	90.1%
48	Slovakia	Europe	89.8%
49	Argentina	Americas	89.7%
50	Cyprus	Europe	89.6%
51	Uzbekistan	Eurasia	89.5%
52	Italy	Europe	89.2%
53	Lithuania	Europe	89.2%
54	Montenegro	Europe	88.9%
55	France	Europe	88.7%
56	Poland	Europe	88.6%
57	Portugal	Europe	88.5%
58	Israel	Middle East & North Africa	88.2%
59	Serbia	Europe	87.7%
60	Czechia	Europe	87.7%
61	Turkey	Eurasia	87.3%
62	Costa Rica	Americas	87.2%
63	Greece	Europe	86.3%
64	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Europe	86.1%
65	Albania	Europe	85.9%
66	Japan	Asia-Pacific	85.5%
67	Iran	Middle East & North Africa	85.3%
68	Mongolia	Asia-Pacific	85.1%
69	Brazil	Americas	84.5%
70	Vietnam	Asia-Pacific	84.2%
71	Georgia	Eurasia	83.8%
72	Croatia	Europe	83.6%
73	Mexico	Americas	83.1%
74	Guyana	Americas	83.0%
75	Ukraine	Eurasia	82.5%
76	Bulgaria	Europe	82.4%
77	Trinidad and Tobago	Americas	82.2%
78	Peru	Americas	82.0%
79	Libya	Middle East & North Africa	82.0%
80	Paraguay	Americas	81.6%
81	Iraq	Middle East & North Africa	81.5%
82	Armenia	Eurasia	81.3%
83	Lebanon	Middle East & North Africa	80.6%
84	Belize	Americas	80.0%
85	Bolivia	Americas	79.7%
86	Colombia	Americas	79.3%
87	South Africa	Sub-Saharan Africa	78.4%
88	Algeria	Middle East & North Africa	77.4%
89	Moldova	Eurasia	77.4%
90	Ecuador	Americas	77.2%
91	Venezuela	Americas	76.7%
92	Tunisia	Middle East & North Africa	76.5%
93	Fiji	Asia-Pacific	74.7%
94	Egypt	Middle East & North Africa	74.6%
95	Indonesia	Asia-Pacific	72.8%
96	Panama	Americas	72.8%
97	Ghana	Sub-Saharan Africa	72.2%
98	Cuba	Americas	70.5%
99	Gabon	Sub-Saharan Africa	68.7%
100	Cambodia	Asia-Pacific	68.5%
101	Philippines	Asia-Pacific	67.3%
102	El Salvador	Americas	66.5%
103	Laos	Asia-Pacific	65.6%
104	Djibouti	Sub-Saharan Africa	65.3%
105	India	Asia-Pacific	64.9%
106	Namibia	Sub-Saharan Africa	64.9%
107	Eswatini	Sub-Saharan Africa	63.4%
108	Equatorial Guinea	Sub-Saharan Africa	63.3%
109	Nicaragua	Americas	61.4%
110	Guatemala	Americas	60.2%
111	Senegal	Sub-Saharan Africa	60.1%
112	Honduras	Americas	58.6%
113	Botswana	Sub-Saharan Africa	57.5%
114	Pakistan	Asia-Pacific	57.3%
115	Tajikistan	Eurasia	55.8%
116	Sri Lanka	Asia-Pacific	54.6%
117	Bangladesh	Asia-Pacific	53.4%
118	Lesotho	Sub-Saharan Africa	51.8%
119	Gambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	49.5%
120	Haiti	Americas	47.9%
121	Congo	Sub-Saharan Africa	47.3%
122	Nepal	Asia-Pacific	46.3%
123	Cameroon	Sub-Saharan Africa	46.3%
124	Mauritania	Sub-Saharan Africa	45.8%
125	Zimbabwe	Sub-Saharan Africa	41.6%
126	Côte d'Ivoire	Sub-Saharan Africa	41.4%
127	Nigeria	Sub-Saharan Africa	41.2%
128	Angola	Sub-Saharan Africa	40.7%
129	Togo	Sub-Saharan Africa	39.5%
130	Mali	Sub-Saharan Africa	36.8%
131	Kenya	Sub-Saharan Africa	35.0%
132	Benin	Sub-Saharan Africa	34.0%
133	Guinea	Sub-Saharan Africa	33.3%
134	Liberia	Sub-Saharan Africa	32.2%
135	Rwanda	Sub-Saharan Africa	31.7%
136	Tanzania	Sub-Saharan Africa	31.2%
137	Guinea-Bissau	Sub-Saharan Africa	29.8%
138	Solomon Islands	Asia-Pacific	29.0%
139	Burkina Faso	Sub-Saharan Africa	28.3%
140	Somalia	Sub-Saharan Africa	27.9%
141	Sierra Leone	Sub-Saharan Africa	25.1%
142	Ethiopia	Sub-Saharan Africa	21.9%
143	Mozambique	Sub-Saharan Africa	20.5%
144	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Sub-Saharan Africa	19.7%
145	Malawi	Sub-Saharan Africa	19.0%
146	Papua New Guinea	Asia-Pacific	18.8%
147	Madagascar	Sub-Saharan Africa	18.7%
148	Zambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	17.1%
149	Afghanistan	Asia-Pacific	16.1%
150	Niger	Sub-Saharan Africa	15.6%
151	Central African Republic	Sub-Saharan Africa	13.8%
152	Chad	Sub-Saharan Africa	12.6%
153	Uganda	Sub-Saharan Africa	8.9%
154	Burundi	Sub-Saharan Africa	8.6%

Data by year

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Source and licence

World Bank — World Development Indicators

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