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26151 How many internet users does each country have? untitled-reusable-block-20 wp_block publish <!-- wp:columns {"className":"is-style-sticky-right"} --> <div class="wp-block-columns is-style-sticky-right"><!-- wp:column {"width":""} --> <div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The Internet has been one of our most transformative and fast-growing technologies. Globally, the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://ourworldindata.org/internet#growth-of-the-internet" target="_blank">number of Internet users increased</a> from only 413 million in 2000 to over 3.4 billion in 2016. The one-billion barrier was crossed in 2005. Every day over the past five years, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://ourworldindata.org/internet-history-just-begun" target="_blank">an average of 640,000 people</a> went online for the first time.{ref}The number of people that are online increased from 1,992,063,360 in 2010 to 3,408,270,592 in 2016.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>This is an increase of 3,408,270,592-1,992,063,360=1,416,207,232 over 6 years.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>On average this means that (1,416,207,232/6)/365=646,670 people were online for the first time on an average day in these last 6 years. This was 646,670/24=26,945 new people online every hour.{/ref}</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>But how many people from each country are online? In the maps, we see the total number of users by country, and the percentage of a country's population who are users.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>China and India take the top two slots despite having only <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://ourworldindata.org/internet#world-map-of-internet-access" target="_blank">50 and 26 percent online</a>, respectively. The top six countries by users&nbsp;(and the only countries with over 100 million) in 2016/17 were{ref}Internet access data for some countries is not yet available for 2017. In the data below we provide the number for 2017 if available, and if not, the number in 2016. Countries with 2016 data shown are noted when hovering over them on the map.{/ref}:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"ordered":true} --> <ol id="block-b224736a-38ca-4231-ae36-e69a6a1e58f4"><li>China = 765 million</li><li>India = 391 million</li><li>United States = 245 million</li><li>Brazil = 126 million</li><li>Japan = 116 million</li><li>Russia = 109 million</li></ol> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>A chart of the top 10 countries is <strong><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-internet-users-by-country?tab=chart&amp;time=2016&amp;country=USA+IND+CHN+BRA+JPN+RUS+MEX+DEU+IDN+GBR" target="_blank">here</a></strong>. Clicking on any country in map shows how its users have changed over time.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The Internet has been growing at an incredible rate; many countries – including India, Bangladesh, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana and Malawi –&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-internet-users-by-country?tab=chart&amp;country=BGD+GHA+IND+CIV+MWI" target="_blank">have doubled the number of users</a> in the last 3 years alone.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Around half of the world is not yet online – as <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/internet#the-internet-s-history-has-just-begun">Max wrote</a>, the internet's history has only just begun<a href="https://owid.cloud/internet-history-just-begun">,</a>&nbsp;but with 27,000 new users every hour, many will experience it for the first time soon.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --></div> <!-- /wp:column --> <!-- wp:column --> <div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:html --> <iframe src="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-internet-users-by-country" loading="lazy" style="width: 100%; height: 600px; border: 0px none;"></iframe> <!-- /wp:html --> <!-- wp:html --> <iframe src="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-individuals-using-the-internet" loading="lazy" style="width: 100%; height: 600px; border: 0px none;"></iframe> <!-- /wp:html --></div> <!-- /wp:column --></div> <!-- /wp:columns --> 
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 The Internet has been one of our most transformative and fast-growing technologies. Globally, the [number of Internet users increased](https://ourworldindata.org/internet#growth-of-the-internet) from only 413 million in 2000 to over 3.4 billion in 2016. The one-billion barrier was crossed in 2005. Every day over the past five years, [an average of 640,000 people](https://ourworldindata.org/internet-history-just-begun) went online for the first time.{ref}The number of people that are online increased from 1,992,063,360 in 2010 to 3,408,270,592 in 2016. This is an increase of 3,408,270,592-1,992,063,360=1,416,207,232 over 6 years. On average this means that (1,416,207,232/6)/365=646,670 people were online for the first time on an average day in these last 6 years. This was 646,670/24=26,945 new people online every hour.{/ref} But how many people from each country are online? In the maps, we see the total number of users by country, and the percentage of a country's population who are users. China and India take the top two slots despite having only [50 and 26 percent online](https://ourworldindata.org/internet#world-map-of-internet-access), respectively. The top six countries by users (and the only countries with over 100 million) in 2016/17 were{ref}Internet access data for some countries is not yet available for 2017. In the data below we provide the number for 2017 if available, and if not, the number in 2016. Countries with 2016 data shown are noted when hovering over them on the map.{/ref}: 0. China = 765 million 1. India = 391 million 2. United States = 245 million 3. Brazil = 126 million 4. Japan = 116 million 5. Russia = 109 million A chart of the top 10 countries is **[here](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-internet-users-by-country?tab=chart&time=2016&country=USA+IND+CHN+BRA+JPN+RUS+MEX+DEU+IDN+GBR)**. Clicking on any country in map shows how its users have changed over time. The Internet has been growing at an incredible rate; many countries – including India, Bangladesh, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana and Malawi – [have doubled the number of users](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-internet-users-by-country?tab=chart&country=BGD+GHA+IND+CIV+MWI) in the last 3 years alone. Around half of the world is not yet online – as [Max wrote](https://ourworldindata.org/internet#the-internet-s-history-has-just-begun), the internet's history has only just begun[,](https://owid.cloud/internet-history-just-begun) but with 27,000 new users every hour, many will experience it for the first time soon. <Chart url="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-internet-users-by-country"/> <Chart url="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-individuals-using-the-internet"/> 
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