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Internet users

People online. From ~0 to ~90% in Poland; world ~74%.

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The file

Share of people using the internet, from 1990. A hockey stick.

The indicator

IT.NET.USER.ZS. “Using” changes meaning over time. This is not subscriptions or smartphones.

What the numbers show

From ~0 to ~89% in Poland, ~94% in DE/US; world ~74% (2025). Steep to 2010, then catch-up. Prerequisite: Access to electricity; backdrop: Urban population.

Source
World Bank Open Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Last publisher update
2026-07-13
Retrieved
2026-09-15
Warehouse version
v21

Cite

Longseries, “Internet users”. World Bank Open Data (IT.NET.USER.ZS), 1990–2025, Brazil, China, Czechia, Germany, Spain, France, United Kingdom, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, United States, World. Retrieved 2026-09-15. CC BY 4.0. Warehouse v21. https://longseries.com/en/d/internet-users/

No revisions in this copy yet — cron will append them when a publisher changes a past value.

Latest values

Sorted by the latest published value. The rest of the file is under the fold.

15 places — sorted by latest value
CountryYearValue
Netherlands202497.0
Sweden202595.8
Spain202495.8
United Kingdom202495.5
United States202494.7
Germany202493.5
China202591.6
Italy202489.2
The rest of the places (7)
Remaining 7 places
France202488.7
Poland202488.6
Czechia202487.7
Japan202485.5
Brazil202484.5
World202573.6
India202570.0

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