As of February 2025, 67.9 percent of the global population accessed the internet. This figure has increased significantly in recent years, with only 53 percent of the global population using the internet in 2018. As of the measured month, internet users worldwide were around 5.56 billion.
Worldwide internet user penetration from 2014 to February 2025
Characteristic
Share of global population
February 2025
67.9%
October 2024
67.5%
July 2024
67.1%
Apr 2024
67.1%
Jan 2024
66.2%
Oct 2023
65.7%
Jul 2023
64.5%
2022
62.5%
2021
59.5%
2020
59%
2019
57%
2018
53%
2017
50%
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DataReportal, & We Are Social, & Meltwater. (February 5, 2025). Worldwide internet user penetration from 2014 to February 2025 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved March 14, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/325706/global-internet-user-penetration/
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