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Using the internet

% of people · World Bank World Development Indicators, IT.NET.USER.ZS

Countries with any figure
212
Years
1990–2025
Compare on
2019 189 countries
Newest year
2025 10 countries
Every year
3 countries
Stop before 2019
22 countries

Statistical offices report at different speeds, so the newest year usually has fewer countries than the years before it. A country's "latest" figure elsewhere on this site can therefore be from different years for different countries; rankings only compare countries with a figure for the same year.

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Countries with a figure for Using the internet, each yearThe best-covered year has 208 countries. 2019 is the last year with at least 90% of that (189); 2025 has 10.
0501001502002501990199520002005201020152020202590% of 208
Indicator: Count of countries in the geo registry with a non-empty value; Using the internet, % of people, yearly; WDI IT.NET.USER.ZSSource: World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0)
Show the numbers (36 rows)
YearCountries with a figure
202510
2024182
2023181
2022182
2021180
2020184
2019189
2018181
2017199
2016203
2015201
2014201
2013201
2012203
2011204
2010201
2009202
2008202
2007203
2006200
2005199
2004198
2003195
2002202
2001199
2000196
1999194
1998187
1997181
1996171
1995138
199491
199365
199250
199139
1990208
Which countries have figures for Using the internet, by year212 countries have at least one figure from 1990 to 2025; 3 have every year, 169 have gaps, and 22 stop before 2019.
19901995200020052010201520202025

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Indicator: Using the internet, % of people, yearly; WDI IT.NET.USER.ZSSource: World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0)

Countries with no figure since before 2019

CountryLast figureYears with a figure
American Samoa19901990
Northern Mariana Islands19901990
Turks & Caicos Islands19901990
North Korea20041990, 1997–2004
Samoa20141990, 1997–2014
Vanuatu20151990, 1996–2015
Gibraltar20161990, 1997–2012, 2016
Turkmenistan20161990, 1999–2016
Aruba20171990, 1996, 1999–2017
Bermuda20171990, 1995–2017
British Virgin Islands20171990, 2002, 2009–2012, 2016–2017
Cayman Islands20171990, 1993–1995, 2005–2017
Curaçao20172016–2017
Faroe Islands20171990, 1995–2017
French Polynesia20171990, 1996–2017
Greenland20171990, 1994–2017
Guam20171990, 1994–2017
New Caledonia20171990, 1995–2015, 2017
Sudan20171990, 1994–2004, 2007, 2015–2017
Tuvalu20171990, 2000–2017
U.S. Virgin Islands20171990, 1994–2017
Syria20181990–2018

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