According to the statistics from UN body that there will be almost half of the world’s population can be connected to he internet by the end of the year.
We have 7.2 billion population in this planet. In 2015, there will be 3.2 billion people online which is predicted by The International Telecommunication Union.
Among 3.2 billion people, there are about 2 billion coming from the developing countries, those nations considered the relative developed countries, for example, Somalia and Nepal only make up 89 million people.
The report claims that the mobile subscriptions are expected to develop rapidly from 738 million in 2000 to 7 billion this year.
Among 100 people, there are 78 people using mobile broadband in the US AND Europe, while there are only 17.4% of people have access to mobile broadband in Africa.From the figures we aware of the rapid technological improvements made up to date, and the drawbacks from the quick developing of digital economy. We also need to pay much attention on the ICT investment, statement from Houlin Zhao, ITU secretary general.
In developed countries, there are about 80% of families expected to have some sorts of internet access by the end of the year, while in developing countries it just makes up 34% of families.