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Just 25% adults use Internet in India: Pew survey
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SME Times News Bureau | 20 Jun, 2018
Despite talk of Digital India, only one-in-four in the country reported
using the Internet in 2017, which is among the lowest in the world,
according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center.
South Korea
stands out as the most heavily connected society, with 96 per cent of
adults reporting Internet use, showed the the survey conducted in 37
countries.
While majorities use the Internet in much of the
world, sub-Saharan Africa and India has much to catch up with, according
to the results released on Tuesday.
Samrtphone ownership among
adults in India went up from 12 per cent in 2013 to 22 per cent in 2017,
while social media use went up from eight to 20 per cent during the
same period.
That means 78 per cent of adults in India do not own
a smartphone and a whopping 80 per cent of the population in the
country have no clues about Facebook or Twitter.
While the gap in
Internet use between emerging and advanced economies has narrowed in
recent years, there are still large swaths of the world where
significant numbers of citizens do not use the Internet, the study said.
Internet
penetration rates -- as measured by Internet use or smartphone
ownership -- remain high in North America and much of Europe, as well as
in parts of the Asia-Pacific.
Yet, others are not far behind.
In Australia, the Netherlands, Sweden, Canada, the US, Israel, the UK,
Germany, France and Spain, roughly nine-in-ten report Internet use.
Regionally, sub-Saharan Africa is one of the least wired parts of the globe.
However,
among people who use the Internet, those in developing countries often
turn out to be more likely than their counterparts in advanced economies
to network via platforms like Facebook and Twitter.
In 2015-16, roughly four-in-ten adults across the emerging nations surveyed said they used social networking sites.
As
of 2017, 53 per cent use social media. Over the same period, social
media use has been generally level in many of the advanced economies
surveyed.
The report also showed that there has been a steady
increase in Internet use over the past five years among the 19 emerging
and developing economies surveyed.
In 2013, only 16 per cent
adults in India reported using the Internet. The percentage of adults
using the Internet in India went up to 25 per cent in 2017.
Between
2013 and 2014, a median of 42 per cent across the emerging and
developing economies said they accessed the Internet at least
occasionally or owned a smartphone.
By 2017, a median of 64 per
cent were online. Meanwhile, Internet use among the 17 advanced
economies surveyed has remained relatively flat, with a median of 87 per
cent across these nations using the internet at least occasionally in
2017, similar to the 86 per cent who said this in 2015 or 2016.
Similarly, in 2013-14, about a quarter of people in emerging and developing economies reported owning a smartphone.
By
2017, that share had risen to 42 per cent. Among the advanced
economies, 72 per cent report owning a smartphone in 2017, the same rate
as in 2015-16.
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