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Global home Internet access continues trend of steady increase: poll
WASHINGTON, Jan 14, 2013 (Xinhua via COMTEX) --
More than one third of adults
worldwide had home Internet access in 2011, showing a trend of
steady uptick each year, according to a global survey released
Monday.
Thirty-two percent of adults worldwide in 2011 reported having
home Internet access, up from 29 percent in 2010 and 25 percent in
2009, according to the Gallup survey conducted in 148 countries
and regions.
In 48 countries and regions surveyed in 2011, half or more
adults reported having home Internet access. In 23 nations and
regions, the rate of home Internet access was 80 percent or
higher.
Sweden and Singapore tied in boasting the highest home Internet
access rate of 93 percent, followed by Denmark and the
Netherlands, where more than nine in 10 reported having home
Internet access.
The world's largest economies, as well as major emerging
economies, fell between the extremes of home Internet access
worldwide. The United States, the world's largest economy, was
only 23rd on the list, with 80 percent of American adults
reporting Internet access. Japan and Germany, the third and fourth
largest economies, are at 73 percent and 77 percent, respectively.
Among the emerging countries, Russia had the highest home
Internet access rate of 51 percent, followed by Brazil's 40
percent and China's 34 percent. South Africa and India were at the
lower end with 16 percent and 3 percent, respectively.
In 41 nations, fewer than 10 percent respondents said they had
Internet access at home, including less than 1 percent in Burundi,
Guinea, Mali and Madagascar. Togo, Burkina Faso, Benin, Rwanda,
the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic,
Niger and Cambodia were found to have only 1 percent home Internet
access.
Economic development is the key to expanding home Internet
access worldwide, and a nation's home Internet access coverage has
positive implications for its economic strength, as it can help
promote the education of its youth, the productivity of its
workers, and the civic engagement of its citizens, Gallup said in
a report.
Mobiles phones, however, are helping to fill the void in many
countries and will increasingly do so as access to smartphones and
tablet devices powered by mobile phone networks continues to grow
worldwide, Gallup said.
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