Share of offline population living in low- and middle-income countries
96%
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96 per cent of those offline live in low- and middle-income countries;
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Source
- Publisher
- International Telecommunication Union · homepage ↗
- Report
- Global number of Internet users increases, but disparities deepen key digital divides
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- 17 November 2025
- Locator
- Detailing the globe's digital divides
- Retrieved
- 14 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable
- Report licence
- See the source
Verification
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- Verified
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- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Extraction confidence
- 90%
- Last change
- 15 September 2026
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- International Telecommunication Union. (2025). Global number of Internet users increases, but disparities deepen key digital divides. Retrieved 14 September 2026, from StatOrigin: https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4QD
- MLA
- International Telecommunication Union. "Global number of Internet users increases, but disparities deepen key digital divides." 2025, https://www.itu.int/en/mediacentre/Pages/PR-2025-11-17-Facts-and-Figures.aspx. Accessed 14 September 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4QD.
- Chicago
- International Telecommunication Union. "Global number of Internet users increases, but disparities deepen key digital divides." 2025. https://www.itu.int/en/mediacentre/Pages/PR-2025-11-17-Facts-and-Figures.aspx. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4QD.
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- @misc{itu2025share, author = {{International Telecommunication Union}}, title = {Global number of Internet users increases, but disparities deepen key digital divides}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4QD}, note = {Original source: https://www.itu.int/en/mediacentre/Pages/PR-2025-11-17-Facts-and-Figures.aspx. Accessed 14 September 2026.} }
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