Global Internet Users 2022 - Statistics

Internet has become a new necessity these days. But not all of us have this facility. Today nearly 3 billion people out of a 7 billion are connected to internet via different sources. Starting from 1993, the number of global internet users has increased exponentially, as of 1995 only 1% of worlds population were connected to internet and now its more than 40% of worlds population.
In 2005 the first billion was reached and second billion in 2010, and estimations have revealved we have reached another billion, totalling a 3 billion internet users.

Global Internet Users 2022

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Among regions Asia has largest share of internet users, Americas on second and Europe on third. While Oceania manged to constituted a share of 25 million users that roughly 0.9% of total users around the world.

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China being most populous country in the world leads in number of internet users with 641 million users, United states on second with 279 million and India on third place with 243 million users. But countries like Qatar, Bahrain, Iceland and Norway tops the for having 95% of their population connected to internet.

Rank	Country	Internet Users	1 Year Growth %	1 Year User Growth	Total Country Population	1 Yr Population Change (%)	Penetration (% of Pop. with Internet)	Country's share of World Population	Country's share of World Internet Users
1	China	641,601,070	4%	24,021,070	1,393,783,836	0.59%	46.03%	19.24%	21.97%
2	United States	279,834,232	7%	17,754,869	322,583,006	0.79%	86.75%	4.45%	9.58%
3	India	243,198,922	14%	29,859,598	1,267,401,849	1.22%	19.19%	17.50%	8.33%
4	Japan	109,252,912	8%	7,668,535	126,999,808	-0.11%	86.03%	1.75%	3.74%
5	Brazil	107,822,831	7%	6,884,333	202,033,670	0.83%	53.37%	2.79%	3.69%
6	Russia	84,437,793	10%	7,494,536	142,467,651	-0.26%	59.27%	1.97%	2.89%
7	Germany	71,727,551	2%	1,525,829	82,652,256	-0.09%	86.78%	1.14%	2.46%
8	Nigeria	67,101,452	16%	9,365,590	178,516,904	2.82%	37.59%	2.46%	2.30%
9	United Kingdom	57,075,826	3%	1,574,653	63,489,234	0.56%	89.90%	0.88%	1.95%
10	France	55,429,382	3%	1,521,369	64,641,279	0.54%	85.75%	0.89%	1.90% a

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