Internet penetration rate
RecordSTO-8BQN2X6VBJ-WMWQCWZ4Y2-C027CW
Africa · 2023
Internet penetration rate in Africa was 37% in 2023 (ITU).
Internet penetration rate: every country and year, and how it is measured
- Publisher
- ITU
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Report
- Facts and Figures 2023
- Locator
- Mobile phone ownership
- Retrieved
- 17 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
In the Africa region, where 63 per cent of the population own a mobile phone but only 37 per cent use the Internet, the gap is 26 percentage points.
Checked: the figure 37%is stated in this passage. If it does not match, the extraction is wrong and we want to know.
Cite this figure
APA
International Telecommunication Union. (2023). Facts and Figures 2023. Retrieved September 17, 2026, from https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2023/10/10/ff23-mobile-phone-ownership/. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_8BQN2X6VBJWMWQCWZ4Y2C027CW
Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
- MLA
- International Telecommunication Union. "Facts and Figures 2023." 2023, https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2023/10/10/ff23-mobile-phone-ownership/. Accessed 17 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_8BQN2X6VBJWMWQCWZ4Y2C027CW.
- Chicago
- International Telecommunication Union. "Facts and Figures 2023." 2023. https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2023/10/10/ff23-mobile-phone-ownership/. Accessed September 17, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_8BQN2X6VBJWMWQCWZ4Y2C027CW.
- BibTeX
- @misc{itu2023internetc027cw, author = {{International Telecommunication Union}}, title = {Facts and Figures 2023}, year = {2023}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_8BQN2X6VBJWMWQCWZ4Y2C027CW}, note = {Original source: https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2023/10/10/ff23-mobile-phone-ownership/. 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 2023
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- 10 October 2023
- Locator
- Mobile phone ownership
- Retrieved
- 17 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 17 September 2026
- Last revision
- 17 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_8BQN2X6VBJWMWQCWZ4Y2C027CW