Wikipedia says its 81% in year 2012.
What does it mean - Is it close to an estimate of average number of unique devices that access internet say weekly or is it the estimate of number of people using internet based on the estimate of devices accessing the internet? Because on 1 desktop computer, multiple members of a house can access internet.
If you look at the wikipedia cite, that statistic comes from the International Telecommunications Union, and it refers to the percentage of individuals, not the number of households with a computer.
If you look at their web site, they have separate statistics for:
Fixed-telephone subscriptions
Mobile-cellular subscriptions
Active mobile-broadband subscriptions
Fixed (wired)-broadband subscriptions
Households with a computer
Households with Internet access at home
Individuals using the Internet
I didn’t poke around enough to see exactly how they derived those statistics.
Thank you, engineer_comp_geek.
For USA in 2012 :
Wired broadband subscriptions ~88.5 million.
Mobile-cellular subscriptions ~310 million
Percentage of individuals using the Internet 81%(~254 million). Would it be right to say that they are using fair amount of estimation here? Do these figures look quite correct? Like 1 in every 5 people aren’t using internet in USA. I don’t even live in the US but just wanted to know.
Seems reasonable to me. Old people who never bothered with computers, people too poor to have one, people who would like Internet access but live in places where all the options are too expensive… It adds up.
Thanks.
In India, there are about 164 million users out of 1200 million population. main reasons for this are cost of internet, cost of devices, lack of knowledge of English language. Though with 4G LTE coming up and broadband increase, this penetration is expected go to 600 million by 2020. I was just wondering that even in developed countries its not close to 100% such as the US its 81% or for ex. Italy where its 58%…so we should expect 60%-80% maximum in India even after all these measures and after say 15 years.
There are quite a few countries in Europe that have > 90% internet penetration (hurr hurr), but it looks like about 70-80% across the developed world is common. I can’t imagine that India will ever achieve 100% telephone access, let alone internet.
Phone usage is not the issue. India had 960 million mobile phone connections last I checked as opposed to just 164 million internet users latest. Normal phone costs as less as Rs 600, call rates are quite low too. Smartphones cost 5000 minimum upto maximum of 50k rupees n over the top of it, 3G packages are expensive for a lot of people, a lot of people do not understand English - like I said, these are the impediments currently.
India’s median age is around 26 years, so 600 million people of 1200 million population will be 26 or below, this means tht around 300 million will be 13 or below. Most 13 years old and younger kids do not own a people, which leaves the rest of pop. at 900 millions. So we can conclude that even the most of poor people, people in villages, or old people own a phone.
Wow, apparently the most wired place of all is the Falkland Islands!
And everyone is engaged in flame wars with the people who insist they live on Islas Malvinas.
huh huh…internet penetration. That’s right, we all know what it’s really for.
Oh alright, just so my presence here isn’t entirely gratuitous: I have a number of older machines running Win XP that are basically useless to me because I have newer tech at my disposal. Anyone know of an organization I can donate the machines to that will get them (free) to folks who can’t afford a computer?
What, all two of them?
Right, ‘penetration’ word is funny considering one of the main purpose for which internet is used.
We pay all our bills, book all our tickets, search for jobs, businesses, study, mail, gain info, get aware, entertain etc on the internet. Around 4.5 billion people of this world do not access internet, most of them not because they don’t want it.