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Global Digital Population Hit 4.8B in 2020, Almost 300M Increase in a Year

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December 16, 2020
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Recent years have witnessed a surge in the number of internet users, as digital, mobile, and social media became an indispensable part of everyday life for billions of people worldwide. The impressive growth continued in 2020, with 63% of the world’s population now being online.

According to data presented by BuyShares.co.uk, the global digital population hit 4.8bn in the third quarter of 2020, an almost 300 million increase in a year.

One-Third of All Internet Users are from China and India

In 2010, the number of internet users worldwide amounted to over 1.9bn, revealed Statista and Internet World Stats data. Over the next five years, this figure surged by 66% to 3.2bn and continued growing.

In 2019, the global digital population hit 4.5bn, an 8% jump year-over-year. Statistics show that 297 million people got internet access in the last twelve months, with the total number of users reaching 4.8bn in the third quarter.

Analyzed by geography, Asia represents the largest region, with more than 2.5bn internet users as of October, a 61% jump in five years. As the second-largest region globally, the number of online users in Europe jumped by 20% in this period, reaching 727.8 million in 2020. The North American digital population hit 332.9 million this year, a 6% increase compared to 2015 figures.

Statistics show Africa and the Middle East witnessed a surge in the number of online users in the last five years. In 2015, only 313.2 million Africans had access to the internet. In the next five years, this number jumped by 80% to over 566 million. The Middle East counts 184.8 million online users as of 2020, a 59% increase in five years.

The Internet World Stats data also revealed that one-third of all internet users are from China and India. As of 2020, China had over 934 million monthly internet users, more than any other country in the world. India ranked second, as close to 697 million Indians access the internet via computers or mobile devices. The United States ranked third with around 284 million monthly online users.

Despite ranking as the two countries with the highest number of internet users, China and India also have the largest offline population. As of 2020, India had over 685 million people without an internet connection. China ranked second with 582 million people. Pakistan, Nigeria, and Bangladesh follow, with 142.3 million, 118 million, and 97.4 million, respectively.

Global Digital Population to Hit 5.6B by 2025

The StatCounter and Statista data revealed the largest number of internet users were using Google’s Android and Microsoft’s Windows operating systems, around 1.6bn and 1.5bn users in 2019. More than 572 million internet users chosen the iOS operating system. OS X and Linux followed, with 268.3 million and 32.8 million users, respectively.

However, the coronavirus outbreak caused a surge in the use of mobile internet. The GlobalWebIndexData survey held in March 2020 revealed that 70% of responding internet users worldwide were using their smartphones or mobile phones more due to the coronavirus outbreak, though this varied significantly by country.

In the United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia, less than 40% of respondents said they were using their smartphones more, but the percentage stood at 86% for China and the Philippines.

Statista estimates the global digital population to maintain its impressive growth in the following years, and hit the five-billion benchmark in the next two years. By 2025, the number of internet users is expected to reach almost 5.6bn.

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