How the internet spread, 1995–2024

Share of people using the internet every five years from 1995 to 2020 and in 2024. In 1995 only Finland and Iceland passed 10% (the United States was at 9%); by 2024 internet users are the majority almost everywhere except much of Africa, Afghanistan, Nepal and Papua New Guinea. Press play under the map. Data: World Bank – ITU (CC BY 4.0).

Timeline map By Ominuvo Updated: November 4, 2026

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The most recent of 7 years – all of them are in the CSV file.

Country	2000	2005	2010	2015	2020	2024
Afghanistan	–	1%	4%	8%	17%	16%
Albania	0%	6%	45%	57%	72%	86%
Algeria	1%	6%	13%	38%	64%	77%
Andorra	11%	38%	81%	88%	93%	94%
Angola	0%	1%	3%	22%	33%	41%
Antigua & Barbuda	7%	27%	47%	70%	71%	73%
Argentina	7%	18%	45%	68%	86%	90%
Armenia	1%	5%	25%	59%	77%	81%
Aruba	15%	25%	62%	89%	–	–
Australia	47%	63%	76%	85%	95%	96%
Austria	34%	58%	75%	84%	88%	95%
Azerbaijan	0%	8%	46%	77%	85%	90%
Bahamas	8%	25%	43%	78%	92%	93%
Bahrain	6%	21%	55%	94%	100%	100%
Bangladesh	0%	0%	4%	12%	36%	53%
Barbados	4%	53%	65%	72%	70%	70%
Belarus	2%	–	32%	62%	85%	94%
Belgium	29%	56%	78%	85%	92%	96%
Belize	6%	17%	28%	42%	64%	80%
Benin	0%	1%	3%	11%	22%	34%
Bermuda	43%	65%	84%	98%	–	–
Bhutan	0%	4%	14%	40%	77%	91%
Bolivia	1%	5%	22%	38%	60%	80%
Bosnia & Herzegovina	1%	21%	43%	53%	73%	86%
Botswana	3%	3%	6%	39%	52%	58%
Brazil	3%	21%	41%	58%	81%	85%
British Virgin Islands	–	–	37%	–	–	–
Brunei	9%	37%	53%	71%	96%	96%
Bulgaria	5%	20%	46%	57%	70%	82%
Burkina Faso	0%	1%	2%	7%	13%	28%
Burundi	0%	1%	1%	2%	6%	9%
Cambodia	0%	0%	1%	6%	56%	69%
Cameroon	0%	1%	4%	18%	38%	46%
Canada	51%	72%	80%	90%	92%	94%
Cape Verde	2%	6%	30%	43%	69%	75%
Cayman Islands	–	38%	66%	77%	–	–
Central African Republic	0%	0%	2%	3%	–	14%
Chad	0%	0%	2%	4%	8%	13%
Chile	17%	31%	45%	77%	88%	96%
China	2%	9%	34%	50%	70%	92%
Colombia	2%	11%	37%	56%	70%	79%
Comoros	0%	2%	5%	8%	22%	33%
Costa Rica	6%	22%	37%	60%	81%	87%
Côte d’Ivoire	0%	1%	3%	38%	36%	41%
Croatia	7%	33%	57%	70%	78%	84%
Cuba	1%	10%	16%	37%	71%	71%
Cyprus	15%	33%	53%	72%	91%	90%
Czechia	10%	35%	69%	76%	81%	88%
Denmark	39%	83%	89%	96%	97%	100%
Djibouti	0%	1%	7%	23%	60%	65%
Dominica	9%	39%	48%	65%	76%	82%
Dominican Republic	4%	12%	31%	54%	82%	91%
DR Congo	0%	0%	1%	4%	15%	20%
Ecuador	2%	6%	29%	49%	71%	77%
Egypt	1%	13%	22%	38%	72%	75%
El Salvador	1%	4%	16%	27%	55%	67%
Equatorial Guinea	0%	1%	6%	21%	55%	63%
Eritrea	0%	–	1%	1%	14%	–
Estonia	29%	62%	74%	88%	89%	92%
Eswatini	1%	4%	11%	26%	49%	63%
Ethiopia	0%	0%	1%	14%	16%	22%
Faroe Islands	33%	68%	75%	94%	–	–
Fiji	2%	9%	20%	43%	69%	75%
Finland	37%	75%	87%	86%	92%	94%
France	14%	43%	77%	78%	85%	89%
French Polynesia	6%	22%	49%	65%	–	–
Gabon	1%	5%	13%	46%	64%	69%
Gambia	1%	4%	9%	18%	36%	50%
Georgia	1%	6%	27%	48%	73%	84%
Germany	30%	69%	82%	88%	90%	94%
Ghana	0%	2%	8%	23%	63%	72%
Greece	9%	24%	44%	67%	78%	86%
Greenland	32%	58%	63%	68%	–	–
Grenada	4%	21%	27%	53%	66%	70%
Guam	16%	39%	54%	73%	–	–
Guatemala	1%	6%	11%	29%	48%	60%
Guinea	0%	1%	1%	9%	26%	33%
Guinea-Bissau	0%	2%	3%	6%	21%	30%
Guyana	1%	6%	30%	34%	63%	83%
Haiti	0%	6%	8%	14%	39%	48%
Honduras	1%	7%	11%	27%	45%	59%
Hong Kong SAR China	28%	57%	72%	85%	92%	96%
Hungary	7%	39%	65%	73%	85%	94%
Iceland	45%	87%	93%	98%	100%	98%
India	1%	2%	8%	15%	43%	65%
Indonesia	1%	4%	11%	22%	54%	73%
Iran	1%	8%	16%	45%	76%	85%
Iraq	–	1%	3%	15%	54%	82%
Ireland	18%	42%	70%	84%	92%	97%
Israel	21%	25%	68%	77%	90%	88%
Italy	23%	35%	54%	58%	71%	89%
Jamaica	3%	13%	28%	42%	76%	90%
Japan	30%	67%	78%	91%	90%	86%
Jordan	3%	13%	27%	54%	78%	96%
Kazakhstan	1%	3%	32%	71%	86%	93%
Kenya	0%	3%	7%	17%	25%	35%
Kiribati	2%	4%	9%	15%	53%	89%
Kuwait	7%	26%	61%	82%	99%	100%
Kyrgyzstan	1%	11%	16%	30%	72%	92%
Laos	0%	1%	7%	18%	54%	66%
Latvia	6%	46%	68%	79%	89%	93%
Lebanon	8%	10%	44%	74%	82%	81%
Lesotho	0%	3%	4%	25%	44%	52%
Liberia	0%	1%	2%	10%	23%	32%
Libya	0%	4%	14%	25%	74%	82%
Liechtenstein	37%	63%	80%	97%	94%	98%
Lithuania	6%	36%	62%	71%	83%	89%
Luxembourg	23%	70%	91%	96%	99%	99%
Macao SAR China	14%	35%	55%	78%	88%	90%
Madagascar	0%	1%	2%	4%	11%	19%
Malawi	0%	0%	2%	6%	14%	19%
Malaysia	21%	49%	56%	71%	90%	98%
Maldives	2%	7%	27%	55%	79%	85%
Mali	0%	1%	2%	10%	29%	37%
Malta	13%	41%	63%	76%	87%	94%
Marshall Islands	2%	4%	7%	19%	56%	66%
Mauritania	0%	1%	4%	18%	30%	46%
Mauritius	7%	15%	28%	50%	68%	73%
Mexico	5%	17%	31%	57%	72%	83%
Micronesia	4%	12%	20%	32%	39%	40%
Moldova	1%	15%	30%	69%	74%	77%
Monaco	42%	56%	75%	93%	99%	99%
Mongolia	1%	9%	10%	23%	63%	85%
Montenegro	–	27%	38%	68%	78%	89%
Morocco	1%	15%	52%	57%	84%	91%
Mozambique	0%	1%	4%	7%	14%	21%
Myanmar	–	0%	0%	11%	45%	–
Namibia	2%	4%	12%	26%	58%	65%
Nauru	–	–	–	–	78%	83%
Nepal	0%	1%	8%	18%	37%	46%
Netherlands	44%	81%	91%	92%	91%	97%
New Caledonia	14%	32%	42%	74%	–	–
New Zealand	47%	63%	81%	85%	91%	94%
Nicaragua	1%	3%	10%	20%	45%	61%
Niger	0%	0%	1%	3%	12%	16%
Nigeria	0%	4%	12%	23%	32%	41%
North Korea	0%	–	–	–	–	–
North Macedonia	3%	27%	52%	70%	81%	94%
Norway	52%	82%	93%	97%	95%	99%
Oman	4%	7%	36%	74%	95%	95%
Pakistan	–	6%	8%	11%	19%	57%
Palau	–	–	–	–	–	84%
Palestine	1%	16%	37%	57%	76%	–
Panama	7%	12%	40%	51%	65%	73%
Papua New Guinea	1%	2%	1%	8%	15%	19%
Paraguay	1%	8%	20%	50%	74%	82%
Peru	3%	17%	35%	41%	65%	82%
Philippines	2%	5%	25%	37%	54%	67%
Poland	7%	39%	62%	68%	83%	89%
Portugal	16%	35%	53%	69%	78%	89%
Puerto Rico	11%	23%	45%	64%	–	–
Qatar	5%	25%	69%	93%	100%	98%
Republic of the Congo	0%	2%	5%	8%	22%	47%
Romania	4%	22%	40%	56%	79%	91%
Russia	2%	15%	49%	70%	85%	94%
Rwanda	0%	1%	8%	13%	24%	32%
Samoa	1%	3%	7%	–	–	–
San Marino	49%	–	–	–	78%	97%
São Tomé & Príncipe	5%	14%	19%	26%	52%	59%
Saudi Arabia	2%	13%	41%	70%	98%	100%
Senegal	0%	5%	8%	22%	53%	60%
Serbia	–	26%	41%	65%	78%	88%
Seychelles	7%	25%	41%	54%	79%	88%
Sierra Leone	0%	0%	1%	6%	17%	25%
Singapore	36%	61%	71%	79%	92%	94%
Slovakia	9%	55%	76%	78%	90%	90%
Slovenia	15%	47%	70%	73%	87%	91%
Solomon Islands	1%	1%	5%	10%	24%	29%
Somalia	0%	1%	–	2%	15%	28%
South Africa	5%	8%	24%	52%	72%	78%
South Korea	45%	74%	84%	90%	97%	98%
South Sudan	–	–	–	3%	–	–
Spain	14%	48%	66%	79%	93%	96%
Sri Lanka	1%	2%	7%	15%	36%	55%
St. Kitts & Nevis	6%	34%	63%	66%	70%	77%
St. Lucia	5%	22%	33%	57%	62%	68%
St. Vincent & Grenadines	3%	9%	34%	49%	63%	76%
Sudan	0%	–	–	12%	–	–
Suriname	3%	6%	32%	43%	–	–
Sweden	46%	85%	90%	91%	95%	96%
Switzerland	47%	70%	84%	88%	94%	97%
Syria	0%	6%	21%	30%	–	–
Tajikistan	0%	0%	12%	19%	28%	56%
Tanzania	0%	1%	3%	10%	20%	31%
Thailand	4%	15%	22%	39%	78%	91%
Timor-Leste	–	0%	3%	19%	32%	–
Togo	1%	2%	3%	7%	29%	40%
Tonga	2%	5%	16%	39%	55%	67%
Trinidad & Tobago	8%	29%	49%	65%	77%	82%
Tunisia	3%	10%	37%	47%	69%	77%
Türkiye	4%	16%	40%	54%	78%	87%
Turkmenistan	0%	1%	3%	15%	–	–
U.S. Virgin Islands	14%	27%	31%	55%	–	–
Uganda	0%	2%	4%	6%	7%	9%
Ukraine	1%	4%	23%	49%	75%	83%
United Arab Emirates	24%	40%	68%	91%	100%	100%
United Kingdom	27%	70%	85%	92%	95%	96%
United States	43%	68%	72%	75%	90%	95%
Uruguay	11%	20%	46%	65%	86%	92%
Uzbekistan	1%	3%	16%	43%	71%	90%
Vanuatu	2%	5%	8%	22%	–	–
Venezuela	3%	13%	37%	58%	72%	77%
Vietnam	0%	13%	31%	45%	70%	84%
Yemen	0%	1%	12%	24%	–	–
Zambia	0%	1%	3%	9%	15%	17%
Zimbabwe	0%	2%	6%	23%	29%	42%