ECHOExploratory Compendium of Humanity Online

World Bank: Internet Users (% of population)

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A World Bank dataset of 208 countries spanning 1990–2025, collected by World Bank via World Development Indicators. Each record contains country name, country code, internet usage percentage per year. Global internet penetration time-series from 1990 to 2025 covering over 200 countries with annual observations. Suitable for digital divide analysis, internet adoption trends, cross-country comparison, development economics.

#Country level#Digital divide#Internet penetration#World bank#World development indicators

Cite this dataset at world-bank-internet.echo.directory

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Data availability: Country-level internet penetration

  • Aggregate or summary statistics — no individual records
  • Time-series of aggregate country-level statistics

World Bank internet penetration data (% of population) 1990-2025. Aggregate statistics only — no individual user data.

208
Countries
1990–2024
Time Span
7250.0%
Global Avg (2024)
United Arab Emirates
Top Country (2024)
Countries by Internet Penetration — 2024
United Arab Emirates100
Bahrain100
Saudi Arabia100
Denmark99.77
Kuwait99.75
Monaco99.04
Norway99
Luxembourg98.76
Liechtenstein98.26
Iceland98.21
Qatar98.09
Malaysia98.02
Korea, Rep.97.9
San Marino97.35
Switzerland97.34
Ireland97.19
Netherlands97.01
Brunei Darussalam96.3
Australia96.13
Belgium95.78
Internet Penetration Over Time (% of population)
025507510019901995200020052010201520202025Year% of population
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Bahrain
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Denmark
  • Kuwait
  • Global Average

Showing 6 of 209 series.

Global Digital Divide — 2024
  • Connected72.5 (72.5%)
  • Not Connected27.5 (27.5%)

Record

Catalog key
world_bank_internet
Authors
World Bank
Year
2025
Source paper
Internet users (percentage of population)
License
CC BY 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0)
Records
208
Languages
en
Collected
1990–2025 (1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.NET.USER.ZS link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 197.4 KB across 3 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@misc{worldbank2025internet,
  title        = {Internet users (percentage of population)},
  author       = {World Bank},
  year         = {2025},
  howpublished = {\url{https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.NET.USER.ZS}}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

World Bank (2025). World Bank: Internet Users (% of population) [Data set]. https://world-bank-internet.echo.directory/

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

World Bank. World Bank: Internet Users (% of population). 2025, world-bank-internet.echo.directory/.

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