TRENDING
Digital divide means half the world still
offline
By the end of 2016, more than half of the world’s
population, 3.9 billion people, will not yet be using the
Internet. While almost one billion households in the
world now have Internet access, figures for household
access reveal the extent of the digital divide, with 84%
of households connected in Europe, compared with
15.4% in the African region. Of these 230 million are in
China, 60 million in India and 20 million in the world’s
48 Least Developed Countries,
Global online gender gap widens
Internet penetration rates are higher for men than for
women in all regions of the world. The global Internet
user gender gap grew from 11% in 2013 to 12% in
2016. The regional gender gap is largest in Africa, at
23%, and smallest in the Americas, at 2%.
Internet bandwidth
By early 2016, international Internet bandwidth had
reached 185,000 gigabits per second, up from a low
of 30,000 gigabits in 2008. However, bandwidth is
unequally distributed globally, and lack of bandwidth
remains a major bottleneck to improved Internet
connectivity in many developing and Least Developed
Countries.
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