More than half of the world's population uses the internet, says UN

For the first time in history, more than half of the world's population uses the internet-by the end of 2018, about 3.9 billion people worldwide will be connected, which corresponds to 51.2% of the population. Is pointing a report from the UN Agency for information and communications, ITU, published on Friday, 7. Until then, 50% of the world's population used the internet. "This represents an important step towards a more inclusive global information society," said Zhao Houlin, Secretary General of the ITU, in the text of the disclosure of the study. However, he drew attention to the fact that there are still many people without access to the digital economy. "We have to encourage more investment from the public and private sectors, create a favourable environment to attract investments and support technological innovation and business, so that the digital revolution does not let anyone offline. The report shows a large growth of internet use in developed countries: the share of the population connected went from 51.3% in 2005 to 80.9% in 2018. In developing countries, this percentage was 7.7% in 2005 and came to 45.3% in 2018. The region showed the highest increase was in Africa: from 2.1% in 2005 was to 24.4% in 2018. Today, in the Americas, about 69.6% of the population uses the internet. According to the study, 96% of the world's population lives in areas with mobile phone network coverage and 90% of the population can access the internet through 3 g connection or a higher-speed network. In relation to computers, research shows that almost half of the households in the world has at least one computer. This value for regions changes rather: 83.2% of households in developed countries has a computer, and in developing countries this percentage decreases to 36.3%.