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Below is a sortable list of countries by number of Internet users as of 2024.
Internet The Internet (or internet) is the Global network, global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a internetworking, network of networks ...
users are defined as persons who accessed the Internet in the last 12 months from any device, including
mobile phone A mobile phone or cell phone is a portable telephone that allows users to make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while moving within a designated telephone service area, unlike fixed-location phones ( landline phones). This rad ...
s.the statistics for numbers of Internet users were obtained by multiplying an estimated percentage of people using the Internet in a given country, obtained from one source (usually the ITU), by the total population from another source (usually the U.S. Census Bureau). There are not enough
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in the percentage estimate for the precise Internet user counts found in the table to be meaningful. As a result, they should not be treated as precise figures or even reliable estimates.
Percentage is the percentage of a country's population that are Internet users. Estimates are derived either from household surveys or from Internet subscription data. All
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s are included, except
North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders China and Russia to the north at the Yalu River, Yalu (Amnok) an ...
, whose number of internet users is estimated at a few thousand. Data from Statista and Internet World Stats estimates that the total number of internet users at the end of 2023 is around 5.3 billion.


Table

The table contains the following: * the population percentage that uses the internet; data from the
World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and Grant (money), grants to the governments of Least developed countries, low- and Developing country, middle-income countries for the purposes of economic development ...
, * the population percentage that uses the internet; data from the
International Telecommunication Union The International Telecommunication Union (ITU)In the other common languages of the ITU: * * is a list of specialized agencies of the United Nations, specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for many matters related to information ...
, and * the estimated number of internet users; data from the
CIA The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA; ) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with advancing national security through collecting and analyzing intelligence from around the world and ...
.


See also

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Global digital divide The global digital divide describes global disparities, primarily between developed and developing countries, in regards to access to computing and information resources such as the Internet and the opportunities derived from such access. The In ...
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National broadband plan A national broadband plan is a national plan to deploy broadband Internet access. Broadband is a term normally considered to be synonymous with a high-speed connection to the internet. Suitability for certain applications, or technically a certa ...
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List of social networking services A social networking service is an online platform that people use to build social networks or social relationships with other people who share similar personal or career interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections. This is a li ...
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List of sovereign states by Internet connection speeds 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. Average spe ...
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List of sovereign states by number of broadband Internet subscriptions This article contains a sortable list of countries by number of broadband Internet subscriptions and penetration rates, using data compiled by the International Telecommunication Union. List The list includes figures for both fixed wired broad ...
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List of countries by number of telephone lines in use This is a list of countries by number of telephone lines. Data are from the CIA World Factbook unless otherwise specified. See also * List of sovereign states by number of broadband Internet subscriptions * List of countries by number of ...
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List of countries by smartphone penetration This is a list of countries by smartphone penetration. These numbers are based on the top countries by percentage of population owning a smartphone (so smaller countries are absent) and come from Newzoo's Global Mobile Market Report (the numbers we ...
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List of mobile network operators For a more comprehensive list of mobile phone operators, see Mobile country codes. Terrestrial This is a list of the world's 25 largest terrestrial mobile phone network operators measured by number of subscriptions. Satellite based This i ...
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List of multiple-system operators A multiple-system operator (MSO) is an operator of multiple cable or direct-broadcast satellite television systems. A cable system in the United States, by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) definition, is a facility serving a single commun ...
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List of telecommunications companies This list identifies the largest telecommunications companies by total revenue. For a more thorough list, see the By region section. By total revenue ''Note: Numbers of total revenues of most telephone operating companies are sourced from Fo ...


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Number Of Internet Users Worldwide (Live-Counter)
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