The just released ITU ICT Facts and Figures Report shows that 2.7 billion people have access to the internet 38% of the world’s population.
750 million out of 1.8 billion households in the world (41%) have fixed internet connection. The speed of the service varies dramatically with South Korea Japan and Hong Kong having around 90% of fixed services at speeds 10 Mbps and above and all of Africa having virtually no services at this speed.
The ITU also reported that there were 2.1 billion mobile broadband services active in the world with a annual growth rate of 40%. This represents 30 services per 100 population in the world.
Developing countries have more than half (55%) of the mobile broadband services (nearly 1.2 billion) while they have almost half of the worlds fixed internet services.
The ITU estimate that the worlds mobile services at 6.8 billion in 2013 is fast approaching the 7.1 billion world population.