Internet penetration in Latin America and the Caribbean 2023, by country

As of the first month of 2023, nine out of 10 people living in Chile, Uruguay, Bahamas and Antigua & Barbuda were online, putting the countries in the top position regarding internet access in Latin America. Meanwhile, more than 85 percent of the populations of Costa Rica, Argentina, Barbados and the Dominican Republic were online. On the other hand, less than half of the population of Belize, Nicaragua, Guyana, and Haiti had access to the internet. Overall, the internet penetration rate in Latin America stood at 74.63 percent.

Growth in mobile connectivity…

With investments in 4G infrastructure forecast to reach around 211.5 billion U.S. dollars by 2030, the improvement of mobile connectivity is radically changing the picture of access to the internet in Latin America and the Caribbean. One of the best examples is Peru, where the gap between urban and rural areas has greatly diminished in 2021, making its online audiences become the fifth largest of the continent in 2023.

…at an unequal rate

Despite the improvements, Latin America and the Caribbean still face an enormous gap in internet access: the internet penetration rate in the subregion of South America was 75 percent in 2022, while only 66 percent of people in the Caribbean had access to the web. Despite its investments in mobile connectivity, most of the web traffic in Venezuela still originated from desktop devices in 2022, and only two out of five Ecuadorians had access to mobile internet in 2021.