The World in
2011
ICT FACTS AND FIGURES
One third of the world’s population is online
45% of Internet users below the age of 25
Share of Internet users in the total population
Not using
Internet: 82%
Users, developed
China:28%
India: 6%
Other
developing
countries: 66%
Developed

Developing

Users
China: 37%
Other
developing
countries: 53%
India: 10%
Not using
Internet: 65%

Developing
Developed
Total population: 6.5 billion Total population: 7 billion
Note: * Estimate

Developed Developing World
Note: * Estimate
Source: ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators database
2006 2011*
Not using Internet
Using Internet
Billions of people
Using Internet:
18%
Using Internet:
35%
• Younger people tend to be more online than
older people, in both developed and developing
countries.
• In developing countries, 30% of those under
the age of 25 use the Internet, compared to
23%ofthose25yearsandolder.
• Atthesametime, 70% of the under 25-year-
olds — a total of 1.9 billion — are not online
yet: a huge potential if developing countries
can connect schools and increase school
enrolment rates.
The World in 2011 — ICT Facts and Figures
Almost
6 billion mobile-cellular subscriptions
0
1
2
3
4

20
• With 5.9 billion mobile-cellular
subscriptions, global penetration
reaches 87%, and 79% in the devel-
oping world.
• Mobile-broadband subscriptions have
grown 45% annually over the last
fouryearsandtodaytherearetwice
as many mobile-broadband as xed-
broadband subscriptions.
The World in 2011 — ICT Facts and Figures
Growth in bandwidth
facilitates broadband uptake
0
10’000
20’000
30’000
40’000
50’000
60’000
70’000
80’000
90’000
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011*
International Internet bandwidth, GBit/s
Developed
Developing
World
Note: * Estimate
Source: ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators database

Availability of 3G Networks
2G
3G

90%

45%
2G population coverage 3G population coverage

Note: * Estimate
Source: ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators database
• Atotalof159economiesworldwidehavelaunched3Gservicescommerciallyandthenumberofactive
mobile-broadband subscriptions has increased to almost 1.2 billion.
• While people in developed countries usually use mobile-broadband networks in addition to a xed-
broadband connection, mobile-broadband is often the only access method available to people in
developing countries.
• The percentage of the population covered by a 2G mobile-cellular network is twice as high as the
populationcoveredbya3Gnetwork.3Gpopulationcoveragereached45%in2011.
2Gonly
2Gand3G
Topbroadbandeconomies,early2011
Economy
Fixed-broadband
subscriptions per
100 inhabitants
Economy
Active mobile-
broadband
subscriptions per
100 inhabitants*

Europe leads the broadband race
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
Africa Asia & Pacic Arab States CIS World Americas Europe
Per 100 inhabitants
Fixed (wired)-broadband
subscriptions, 2011*
Active mobile-broadband
subscriptions, 2011*
Note: * Estimate
Source: ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators database
• Europeleadsinbroadbandconnectivity,with
xed- and mobile-broadband penetration
reaching26%and54%,respectively.
• A number of developing countries have
been able to leverage mobile-broadband
technologies to overcome infrastructure
barriers and provide high-speed Internet
servicestopreviouslyunconnectedareas.In
Africa, mobile-broadband penetration has
reached 4%, compared with less than 1% for
xed-broadbandpenetration.
• The world’s top broadband economies are
from Europe and Asia and the Pacic. In
the Republic of Korea mobile-broadband

Chile
Estonia
Ireland
Slovenia
Hungary
Slovak Republic
Germany
Switzerland
Georgia
Finland
Spain
Czech Republic
United States*††
Singapore
Denmark
Sweden
France
United Kingdom
Portugal
Bulgaria
Korea (Rep.)
≥10 Mbit/s
≥2 to <10 Mbit/s
≥256 kbit/s to <2 Mbit/s
Note:Referstoadvertisedspeeds.*Datacorrespondtoslightlydifferentspeedintervals.
†Breakdownbyspeedavailableonlyforpartofthetotalxed(wired)-broadbandsubscriptions.
†† June 2010 data.
Source: ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators database
≥10Mbit/s
≥2to<10Mbits/s

14.7
2.0
11.4
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
Developed countries Developing countries
2008
2010
19.1%
22.0%
Percentage
change (drop)
between 2008
and 2010
Mobile-cellular sub-basket
1.3
8.4
1.1
7.8
0
1
2
3

developing countries, where xed-
broadbandpricesdroppedby52.2%.
• In developing countries, mobile-
cellular prices, which have
substantiallydroppedoverthelast
decade, fell by a further 22%.The
2010 mobile-cellular sub-basket
represented on average 11.4% of
monthly GNI per capita, compared
to 2% in developed countries.
• ICT services continue to be
more affordable in high-income
economies and less affordable in
low-income economies. By 2010,
the cost of ICT services averaged
1.5%ofGNIpercapitaindeveloped
countries,comparedwith17%ofGNI
per capita in developing countries.
• In31countries—allofthemhighly
industrialized economies — an
entry-level broadband connection
costsonaveragetheequivalentof
1% or less of average monthly GNI
per capita, while in 19 countries
— most of them least developed
countries — a broadband connection
costs on average more than 100% of
monthlyGNIpercapita.
1. The ITU ICT Price Basket is a composite measure based
onthreetariffsets—xed-telephone,mobile-cellularand