Across the countries surveyed, for mobile users who are aware of mobile internet but don’t use it, the top reported barriers to adopting it remain affordability (particularly of handsets) 5 THE STATE OF MOBILE INTERNET CONNECTIVITY 2023 KEY FINDINGS KEY FINDINGS IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES CONNECTED: COVERAGE of the world’s But the rate of GAP: Adults living in IN MOST SURVEYED COUNTRIES 5. [...] By the end of 2022, wake of the pandemic and the ongoing economic the number of people using mobile internet crisis, it highlights more needs to be done to increased to 4.6 billion people (57% of the accelerate digital inclusion and stop the digital global population). [...] In high-income countries (HICs), reduction in the coverage gap was mostly driven including Japan, South Korea and Australia, 87% by Brazil, the region’s largest country, which of the population used mobile internet as of accounts for 40% of the uncovered population the end of 2022, compared to 69% for LMICs in in Latin America. [...] However, more than half of adults aged 18 and above were still unconnected in Sub-Saharan Africa, while more than a third In The State of Mobile Internet Connectivity 2022, were unconnected in South Asia and in the Middle we showed for the first time the level of internet East and North Africa. [...] TRENDS IN MOBILE INTERNET CONNECTIVITY The rural-urban gap in In 2022, 57% of adults living in rural areas in LMICs mobile internet use were using mobile internet, compared to 80% of those in urban areas.
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