Offline population
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2.2 billion
Global · 2025
Offline population worldwide stood at 2.2 billion in 2025 (ITU).
- Publisher
- ITU
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Opening paragraphs
- Retrieved
- 14 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
However, 2.2 billion people remain offline, down from a revised estimate of 2.3 billion in 2024.
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- APA
- International Telecommunication Union. (2025). Global number of Internet users increases, but disparities deepen key digital divides. Retrieved September 14, 2026, from https://www.itu.int/en/mediacentre/Pages/PR-2025-11-17-Facts-and-Figures.aspx. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_P01QKCZYZCKXWN9TGDNQ345D77
- 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 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_P01QKCZYZCKXWN9TGDNQ345D77.
- 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. Accessed September 14, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_P01QKCZYZCKXWN9TGDNQ345D77.
- BibTeX
- @misc{itu2025offline345d77, 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_P01QKCZYZCKXWN9TGDNQ345D77}, note = {Original source: https://www.itu.int/en/mediacentre/Pages/PR-2025-11-17-Facts-and-Figures.aspx. Accessed September 14, 2026.} }
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Primary Source
- Publisher
- International Telecommunication Union · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Global number of Internet users increases, but disparities deepen key digital divides
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- 17 November 2025
- Locator
- Opening paragraphs
- Retrieved
- 14 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See the source
Verification & Integrity
- Audit status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 17 September 2026
- Last revision
- 17 September 2026
- Archival URI
- /stat/stat_P01QKCZYZCKXWN9TGDNQ345D77