Worldwide digital population July 2022

As of April 2022, there were more than five billion internet users worldwide, which is 63.1 percent of the global population. Of this total, 4.7 billion or 59 percent of the world's population were social media users.

Global internet usage

By now, it is not possible to imagine the world without 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 largest 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 all other countries in terms of internet users. As of February 2022, China had more than a billion internet users, and India had approximately 658 million online users. Both countries still have large parts of the population that are offline.