5G technology is forecast to cover about 84 percent of the global population by 2029. While this coverage remains lower than LTE and 3GPP networks, the latter which remains stable at 96 percent coverage of the world population, 5G networks have seen an exponential increase - from two percent in 2019 to 58 percent in 2024 - and are expected to continue accelerating their coverage from 2024 onwards even though short term factors point to a slower pace in certain countries due to potential delays in the licensing of 5G spectrum due to COVID-19.
Share of world population covered by technology from 2012 to 2029
*Forecast. The source's forecasts are made from a period of six years in the past, which may explain why the 5G forecasts from 2022 onwards start out lower than the current recorded coverage.
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