Although Indonesia's internet adoption rate reaches 77%, the population that has not been touched by virtual internet access is still very large. In fact, people who are not connected to the internet make Indonesia enter the top 10 countries in the world.
Based on the We Are Social Report revealed the number of Indonesia's population that did not get access to the internet in January 2023 reached 63,514,000. This made Indonesia perched in the 8th position about Unconnected Population.
When referring to the same data, the Indonesian population is 276,386,000. With the number of people who have not been touched by internet services, it means that who can enjoy this internet service as many as 212 million people.
Meanwhile, the majority of countries that enter the top 10 are countries in Africa. The most residents who do not have access to the internet are India, which half can not surf in cyberspace.
List of 10 largest countries whose citizens are not connected to the internet:
1. India 730,027,000 people
2. China 374,709,000 people
3. Pakistan 150,779,000 people
4. Bangladesh 105,138,000 people
5. Ethiopia 104,073,000 people
6. Nigeria 98,635,000 people
7. Democratic Republic Congo 77,568,000 people
8. Indonesia 63,514,000 people
9. Tanzania 45,456,000 people
10. Kenya 36,699,000 people
Even so, we are social mentioning that there is a reduction in the number of people who do not get internet services compared to last year.
"However, a slower use of user growth will make it more difficult to achieve universal goals of the United Nations connectivity in 2023, considering that 2.85 billion people worldwide are still offline," said We Are Social.
Based on the recent report of We Are Social in January 2023, currently more than half of the population of the earth is an internet user. There are 5.16 billion people worldwide who access the internet. The amount is equal to 64.4% of the total population of the earth today.
Through Digital 2023 Overview Report, the total world population passed eight billion on November 1522 and had reached 8.01 billion in early 2023. As for, 57% of them lived in urban areas.
We Are Social, which this time in collaboration with Meltwater said that 5.44 billion people have mobile phones, it is equivalent to 68% of the world's population. Interestingly, over the past year there has been an increase in cellular users which rose more than 3% or there were 168 million new users.
Of the 8.01 billion population of the earth, there are 5.14 billion people who are internet users. It was stated, the number of global internet users in January 2023 increased by 1.9% compared to last year.
We Are Social said there was a delay in reporting internet user data, so there was a possibility that the number was even higher.