FACTS ANDFIGURES

ICT 2016

Mobile network coverage and evolving technologies

“2016 marks the year when the international community is embarking on the implementation of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their 169 targets. The International Telecommunication Union, given the tremendous development of ICTs, has a key role to play in facilitating their attainment. Our new data show that in 2016, over two-thirds of the population lives within an area covered by a mobile broadband network and that ICT services continue to become more aff ordable. Despite these unprecedented opportunities, more than half of all people are not yet using the Internet and large diff erences in terms of broadband speeds and quality exist. ITU data inform public and private-sector decision makers, and help us accomplish our mission: to make use of the full potential of ICTs for the timely achievement of the SDGs.”

Source: ITU. Note: * Estimates. Mobile network coverage refers to the population that is covered by a mobile network.

Brahima Sanou, Director of the ITUTelecommunicationDevelopment Bureau

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Mobile-broadband networks (3G or above) reach 84% of the global population but only 67% of the rural population.

LTE networks have spread quick-ly over the last three years and reach almost 4 billion people today (53% of the global popu-lation), enhancing the quality of Internet use.

WORLD’S OFFLINE POPULATION, 2016More than half the world’s population is not using the Internet

The Americas 35.0%

CIS 33.4%

Asia & Pacific 58.1%

Europe 20.9%

Arab States 58.4%

Africa 74.9%

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Note: The map is based on 2016 estimates. The base map for this infographic is based on the UN map database of the United Nation Cartographic Section.

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By end 2016, 3.9 billion people - 53% of the world’s population – is not using the Internet.

In the Americas and the CIS regions, about one third of the population is offline.

While almost 75% of people in Africa are non-users, only 21% of Europeans are offline.

In Asia and the Pacific and the Arab States, the percentage of the population that is not using the Internet is very similar: 58.1 and 58.4%, respectively.

MIND THE DIGITAL GENDER GAP

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Internet user gender gap (%), 2013 and 2016*

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The global Internet user gender gap grew from 11% in 2013 to 12% in 2016. The gap remains large in the world’s Least Devel-oped Countries (LDCs) - at 31%.

In 2016, the regional gender gap is largest in Africa (23%) and smallest in the Americas (2%).

Source: ITU. Note: * Estimates. Penetration rates in this chart refer to the number of of women/men that use the Internet, as a percentage of the respective total female/male population. CIS refers to: Commonwealth of Independent States.

Source: ITU. Note: * Estimates. The gender gap represents the difference between the Internet user penetration rates for males and females relative to the Internet user penetration rate for males, expressed as a percentage. CIS refers to: Commonwealth of Independent States.

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THE DIGITAL DIVIDE IN 2016Percentage of individuals using the Internet

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Close to one out of two people (47%) in the world are using the Internet but only one out of seven people in the LDCs.

Developed regions are home to one billion Internet users, compared to 2.5 billion users in the developing world.

Almost two-thirds of house-holds in the Americas are connected, compared with half of all households globally.

Almost 1 billion households in the world have Internet ac-cess, of which 230 million are in China, 60 million in India and 20 million in the world’s 48 LDCs.

In developing countries, the number of mobile-broadband subscriptions continues to grow at double digit rates, reaching a penetration rate of close to 41%.

The total number of mo-bile-broadband subscriptions is expected to reach 3.6 billion by end 2016.

Fixed-broadband penetration remains at below 1% in Africa and the LDCs.

Strong growth in China is driving fixed broadband in Asia and the Pacific, where fixed-broadband penetration is expected to surpass 10% by end 2016.

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ICT PRICESBy end 2015, 83 developing countries had achieved the Broadband Commission’s affordability target

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Mobile-broadband services have become more affordable than fixed-broadband services. By end 2015, average mobile-broadband prices corresponded to 5.5% of GNI p.c. worldwide.

The average price of a basic fixed-broadband plan is more than twice as high as the average price of a comparable mobile-broadband plan.

In LDCs, fixed-broadband services are on average more than three times as expensive as mobile-broadband services.

Source: ITU. Note: Based on simple averages including data for 159 economies (left) and 147 economies (right). Prices are based on 1GB cap.

In 2011, the Broadband Commission for Digital Development set the following target:

“By 2015, entry-level broadband services should be made affordable in developing countries through adequate regulation and market forces (amounting to less than 5% of average monthly income).”

Five LDCs achieved the Broad-band Commission target, but in the majority of the world’s poor-est countries broadband remains unaffordable.

Source: ITU. Note: Broadband prices refer to the most affordable service: either fixed or mobile broadband.

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BROADBAND SPEEDSLarge differences in fixed-broadband penetration and speed persist

Fixed-broadband subscriptions by speed, selected countries, 2015

In early 2016, three out of four fixed-broadband subscriptions had advertised speeds of 10 Mbit/s and above in the developed countries, compared with two out of four in the developing countries.

In the LDCs, overall fixed-broad-band penetration remains very low and only 7% of fixed-broadband subscriptions are advertised at speeds above 10 Mbit/s.

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Source: ITU. Note: + 2014 data.

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The size of the circlerepresents the fixed-broadband penetration

M2M, IoT AND BANDWIDTHInternet bandwidth remains unequally distributed across the world

The Internet of Things (IoT) is in its early stages

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By early 2016, total international Internet bandwidth had reached 185’000 Gbit/s, up from 30’000 in 2008.

Africa has the lowest international connectivity of all regions: there is twice as much bandwidth per inhabitant available in Asia and the Pacific, four times as much in the CIS region, eight times as much in the Americas and more than twenty times as much in Europe.

Lack of international connectivity is a major bottleneck in the Inter-net infrastructure of LDCs.

Based on available data, there were 22 mobile-cellular subscriptions for each machine-to-machine (M2M) subscrip-tion worldwide at the beginning of 2015.

The countries with the highest M2M penetration rates are highly industrial-ized, advanced economies, including the Northern European countries of Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark.

Source: ITU. CIS refers to: Commonwealth of Independent States.

Source: ITU. Note: Data refer to early 2015.

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