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Only 38 Percent of Global Population Has Used the Internet: Facebook

Only 38 Percent of Global Population Has Used the Internet: Facebook

By Indo-Asian News Service | Updated: 27 February 2015 15:46 IST

Only 38 percent of people worldwide have connected to the Internet at least once in their lives, according to a study published by Facebook's Internet.org initiative.

The study, titled "State of Connectivity: 2014 - A Report on Global Internet Access" and published Wednesday, examines the current state of global Internet connectivity and looks at who is connected, who is not and why.

The study put the number of Internet users in early 2015 at three billion people, although that still means that more than 60 percent of the global population has never connected to the Web from a computer or mobile device.

The disparity is wide between the developed world and emerging economies, as 78 percent of the population in the former is online compared with just 32 percent of the latter.

The study also found that the rate of growth in Internet adoption slowed in 2014 for the fourth year in a row and has fallen from a growth rate of 14.7 percent in 2010 to just 6.6 percent last year.

Because the rate of Internet adoption is slowing, the number of people online will not reach four billion until 2019, according to the study.

Lack of affordability and limited relevant content in the unconnected population's primary language are the two main barriers to Internet access that must be addressed, the study said.

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