Global internet access and connectivity are drastically increasing.
Silver 19 – Associate Director at the Pew Research Center, PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
Laura Silver, “Digital connectivity growing rapidly in emerging economies,” Pew Research Center, 02-05-2019, https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2019/02/05/digital-connectivity-growing-rapidly-in-emerging-economies/
Internet use is nearly universal in most advanced economies surveyed. In the United States, Sweden, Australia, the Netherlands, Israel and South Korea, more than nine-in-ten use the internet. And in emerging economies, about half or more use the internet in every country but India.
Usage is also growing rapidly in these emerging economies. For example, five years ago less than half of the Mexican public (45%) and only about a third of Filipinos (34%) used the internet at least occasionally or owned a smartphone. Today, internet use in these countries stands at 73% and 66%, respectively.