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According to a new UN research released Tuesday, an estimated 37% of the world’s population, or 2.9 billion people, are still offline, while a record 4.9 billion individuals utilized the internet in 2021.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations body in charge of information and communication technology, said that internet use is growing rapidly around the world.

The number of people who use the internet is expected to increase to 4.9 billion in 2021, up from 4.1 billion in 2019.

The yearly ITU report states, “The newest ITU data reveal that internet uptake has accelerated during the (Covid-19) pandemic.”

In 2019, 4.1 billion individuals, or 54% of the world’s population, used the internet.

The number of people using the internet is increasing.

Since then, the number of users has increased by 800 million, accounting for 63 percent of the global population in 2021.

According to the ITU, 96 percent of the 2.9 billion people who are still without access live in developing nations.

Many hundreds of millions of people may only have restricted access to the internet among the 4.9 billion people counted as “internet users,” according to the ITU.

Such online users frequently connect via shared devices or at connection speeds that severely limit their ability to use their connection.

“While nearly two-thirds of the world’s population is already online, there is still a long way to go to connect everyone,” ITU Secretary-General Houlin Zhao remarked.

Despite the fact that 95 percent of the world’s population now lives within the range of a mobile broadband network, there are still significant blind spots, according to Doreen Bogdan-Martin, director of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau.

Nearly a third of Africa’s rural population still lacks access to mobile broadband.

“We can’t reduce the digital divide if we can’t measure it,” Bogdan-Martin said at a UN press conference. “We can’t connect the unconnected if we don’t know who they are, where they live, and why they stay offline.”

Despite the fact that mobile broadband is available to the overwhelming majority of the world’s population, she claims that only about two-thirds of people use it.

According to Bogdan-Martin, there is a generational split, with 71% of the world’s population between the ages of 15 and 24 utilizing the internet, compared to 57% of all other age groups.

“Gender is still a factor: 62 percent of men use the internet internationally, compared to 57 percent of women.

“While the digital gender divide is reducing across all regions, women continue to be digitally excluded in many of the world’s poorest countries, where online access has the most potential for impact,” said the ITU official.

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