Internet user growth (multi-year total)
RecordSTO-1J2E3Q8NHM-8XGDM11QET-MZCZYR
Global · 2019–2021
Internet user growth worldwide (multi-year total) was 782 million in 2019–2021 (ITU).
- Publisher
- ITU
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Report
- Facts and figures 2021
- Locator
- Internet uptake has accelerated during the pandemic
- Retrieved
- 17 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
Since then the number of users has surged by 782 million to reach 4.9 billion people in 2021, or 63 per cent of the population.
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APA
International Telecommunication Union. (2021). Facts and figures 2021. Retrieved September 17, 2026, from https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2021/11/15/internet-use/. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_1J2E3Q8NHM8XGDM11QETMZCZYR
Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
- MLA
- International Telecommunication Union. "Facts and figures 2021." 2021, https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2021/11/15/internet-use/. Accessed 17 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_1J2E3Q8NHM8XGDM11QETMZCZYR.
- Chicago
- International Telecommunication Union. "Facts and figures 2021." 2021. https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2021/11/15/internet-use/. Accessed September 17, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_1J2E3Q8NHM8XGDM11QETMZCZYR.
- BibTeX
- @misc{itu2021internetmzczyr, author = {{International Telecommunication Union}}, title = {Facts and figures 2021}, year = {2021}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_1J2E3Q8NHM8XGDM11QETMZCZYR}, note = {Original source: https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2021/11/15/internet-use/. Accessed September 17, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- International Telecommunication Union · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Facts and figures 2021
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- 15 November 2021
- Locator
- Internet uptake has accelerated during the pandemic
- Retrieved
- 17 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- editorial:judge-fix-v1:2026-09-27
- Checked on
- 27 September 2026
- Last revision
- 27 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_1J2E3Q8NHM8XGDM11QETMZCZYR