Worldwide digital population 2023

As of January 2023, there were 5.16 billion internet users worldwide, which is 64.4 percent of the global population. Of this total, 4.76 billion, or 59.4 percent of the world's population, were social media users.

Global internet usage

By now, it is impossible to imagine a world without the internet. Connecting billions of people worldwide, the internet is a core pillar of the modern information society. The global internet penetration rate is 62.5 percent, with Northern Europe ranking first with a 98 percent internet penetration rate among the population. The countries with the highest internet penetration rate worldwide were the UAE, Denmark, and Ireland. At the opposite end of the spectrum is North Korea with virtually no online usage penetration among the general population, ranking last worldwide. As of 2021, Asia was the region with the most significant number of online users – over 2.8 billion at the latest count. Europe was ranked second with almost 744 million internet users.

Which country has the highest number of internet users?

China, India, and the United States rank ahead of all other countries in terms of internet users. As of February 2022, China had over a billion internet users, and India had approximately 658 million online users. Despite this, both countries still have large parts of the population that are offline.