Nigeria has been ranked number one in Africa and ninth in the
world when it comes to internet usage. With 63 million internet
users, Nigeria beat other African countries to take the first
place in the continent.
This information is contained in the second edition of
digitalfacts, a publication produced by DigitXplus. The
publication revealed that since 2011, Nigeria has maintained a
steady upward trend in the number of internet users.
It stated that the figures had grown from 35.7 million to 63.2
million internet users from 2012 to 2015, respectively.
Digitalfacts puts the total number of internet users worldwide
at 3.2 billion as at December 2015; representing a whopping
increase of 8.9% over 2.9 billion internet users recorded at the
end of 2014.
China has the highest number of unique internet users with
632 million subscribers while the U.S. is second with 269
million users.
India, Japan, Brazil, and Russia round up the top six with 198
million, 110 million, 105 million and 87 million users
respectively.
Indonesia and Germany have 83 million and 68 million users
respectively while Nigeria has a total of 63 million users.
The regional statistics contained in the publication revealed
that Asia-Pacific had 1.6 billion internet users as at December
2015; while North America, Latin America, Western Europe,
Central/Eastern Europe and the Middle East/Africa boasted of
288 million; 325 million; 310 million; 238 million; and 429
million; in that order.
Chief Executive Officer of DigitXplus, Patrick Gomes,
concluded by stating that:
“At digitXplus, we endeavor to bring information about the
region to the fore, we now present the second edition of
Digital Facts Book with an objective to organize information
on digital medium in West and Central Africa, thus making it
easily accessible and useful to all.”
Gomes also explained that most of the access to internet in
the region is through mobile devices.
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