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Reaching 80% will still take roughly 5 years with current trends.","They think most people are already online but nearly half of humanity is not.","Source: International Telecommunication Union (ITU)","The data comes from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), which is the United Nations' specialized agency for information and communication technologies. It is compiled through surveys and, where data is missing, from estimates. Some countries’ numbers may be overestimates and others are underestimates, for example there is often an underrepresentation of rural communities where Internet access might be lower, resulting in our number being an overestimation. On the other hand, data can be slow to come in from low-income settings where progress right now is the fastest, and the number we have might therefore also be an underestimation. Finally, the ITU’s definition of using the Internet is being online once in the previous three months. If someone was only online once or twice in that time, that is clearly very different from the constant connection many of us have. Despite these limitations, two independent experts we consulted considered the ITU’s figures the best and most reliable estimate of how many people use the Internet.\n\n[1]  [ITU](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.itu.int\u002Fen\u002FITU-D\u002FStatistics\u002FPages\u002Fstat\u002Fdefault.aspx)  \n\n[2]  [ITU\u002FUNESCO - The State of Broadband 2024](https:\u002F\u002Funesdoc.unesco.org\u002Fin\u002FdocumentViewer.xhtml?v=2.1.196&id=p::usmarcdef_0000390280&file=\u002Fin\u002Frest\u002FannotationSVC\u002FDownloadWatermarkedAttachment\u002Fattach_import_386080eb-44e8-4107-b684-42120ed17745%3F_%3D390280eng.pdf&locale=en&multi=true&ark=\u002Fark:\u002F48223\u002Fpf0000390280\u002FPDF\u002F390280eng.pdf#output-1.indd%3AAnchor%20158%3A303)\n\n[3]  We consulted three independent experts for this question, including  Dhanaraj Thakur of the Center For Democracy and Technology.","\nBack in 2005, just 16% of people were online. Since then, it has increased a lot and in 2024, it was 68%. Thanks to the Internet, a lot of people can now access information more easily, and it's easier for them to find education and job opportunities. Women and girls are less likely than men and boys to use the Internet. \n### Why is it a problem that people are wrong about this?\nGetting people online is about teaching very basic skills that could ultimately be life changing. If people don’t know how many people are not yet online it is hard for them to push for more teaching of digital skills in low-income countries.\n\n### Why are people wrong about this?\nMost of our children, family members and friends are using the Internet. It is easy to forget that many people in poorer countries have limited schooling and limited access to computers. \n\n### Can I trust the data?\nYes, but the data has some limitations. It comes from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), which is the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies. Most importantly, the ITU’s definition of using the Internet is: “Being online once in the previous three months”. If someone was only online once or twice in that time, that is clearly very different from the constant connection many of us have. Despite these limitations, though, two independent experts we consulted considered the ITU’s figures the best and most reliable estimate of how many people use the Internet.\n\n### What has happened in my country?\nThis bubble graph shows on the vertical axis [the percent of people in all countries using the Internet](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gapminder.org\u002Ftools\u002F#$model$markers$bubble$encoding$y$data$concept=internet_users&space@=country&=time;&source=sg;&scale$domain:null&zoomed:null&type:null;;&frame$value=2021;;;;;&chart-type=bubbles&url=v1) It has increased everywhere since the 1990s.\n\n### Where can I see data for countries?\n[This bubble graph](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gapminder.org\u002Ftools\u002F#$model$markers$bubble$encoding$y$data$concept=net_users_num&space@=country&=time;;&scale$domain:null&zoomed:null&type:null;;&frame$value=2019;;;;;&chart-type=bubbles&url=v1) shows the number of internet users per country.\n","You are 10 years ahead","Most people you know are online, but more than a third of humanity is still not. Reaching 95% will take roughly 10 years with current trends.","You are 5 years ahead"]