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Population using the Internet

Observed

Share of individuals who used the Internet from any location in the last three months.

Ingestedfrom World BankfreshJSON export
Current value, World
73.6percent of population
period 2025
Geography
World (WLD)
Observation date
2025
Unit
percent of population
Frequency
annual
Ingested
2026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1-year change+2.4improving+3.37%2024 to 2025from 71.2 to 73.6 percent of population
10-year trend+6.31% per yearimproving+84.46%2015 to 2025compound annual growth rate; total +33.7 percent of population, from 39.9 to 73.6 percent of population
Historical series

Population using the Internet, World

Observed
02040608020052010201520202025PERCENT OF POPULATION73.6
21 observations, 2005 to 2025latest point emphasised
Data table (21 rows)
Population using the Internet, World: 21 observations from 2005 to 2025, values from 15.6 to 73.6 percent of population. Latest 73.6 percent of population in 2025. Full data table below.
PeriodValue (percent of population)Source revisionIngested at
202573.62026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
202471.22026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
202369.22026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2022672026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
202163.82026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
202060.12026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201953.92026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201849.42026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201746.32026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201643.62026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201539.92026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201437.42026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201335.32026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201233.32026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201130.92026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201028.42026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200925.32026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200822.82026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200720.22026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200617.22026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200515.62026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
245 geographies have observations for this metric
World Bank, World Development Indicators, series IT.NET.USER.ZS
Definition

What this measures

Internet users are individuals who have used the Internet (from any location) in the last 3 months. The Internet can be used via a computer, mobile phone, personal digital assistant, games machine, digital TV etc. Source: International Telecommunication Union (ITU) World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database, compiled by the World Bank.

Direction
higher is better
Geography level
world, regions, countries
Slug
internet-use
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Provenance and methodologysource, series, ingestion, revisions
Classification
Observedpublished by the cited source, ingested without transformation
Source organization
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Series ID
IT.NET.USER.ZSlast fetch: ok
Source links
License and attribution
Approved with attribution
World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0
Terms of use
Last source update
2026-07-13(source revision label as published by the provider)
Last ingestion
last successful runfresh
Last run
success2026-09-07 05:31 UTC
Parser version
world-bank-v2/1.0.0
Methodology version
1.0
Quality and confidence
Mix of household surveys and operator-based estimates; ITU revises earlier years when new survey data arrive.
Ingestion rejects values outside 0 to 100 percent of population.
21 periods with values for this geography, 2005 to 2025.
Revisions
Values reported for the latest period (2025) by each source revision ingested. Earlier rows are never deleted; the newest ingested row is shown as current.
Source revisionValue (percent of population)Ingested atStatus
2026-07-1373.62026-09-07 05:31 UTCcurrent
No superseded rows for this geography: every period has been ingested once.