Talk:List of countries by number of Internet users/Archive 2

The list?

What's the point on changing it only too 2011? I mean really? --Ty Rezac (talk) 20:52, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

The figures released by the ITU in 2012 cover the period through the end of 2011. When the ITU releases figures for 2012, I expect that the article will be updated. Really. --Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 11:28, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Newest Data

There data on june 2012 / need to rewrite article. http://www.internetworldstats.com/top20.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.178.138.251 (talk) 05:40, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

See the comments about internetworldstats.com above. We've been getting the figures for this article from the ITU. Also, the internetworldstats reference given only lists the top 20 countries and we need them all. --Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 11:25, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

New info from ITU for 2012.

http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/icteye/Reporting/ShowReportFrame.aspx?ReportName=/BDT/DynamicReportPublic&ReportFormat=HTML4.0&RP_intLanguageID=1&RP_strCodeIDs=11624&RP_intClassID=1&RP_strCountryIDs=&RP_bitLatest=True&RP_intYearFrom=-1&RP_intYearTo=-1&RP_strGroupping=rbLatestCty_rCod_rYer_c

Some odd things which I see are: Eritrea has 6% here on wiki, but ITU says 0.8. Maybe they made mistake and should be 6.8 Precisely I don't think that it's mistake here.

Palestine info isn't visible in new infos, so should stay that from 2011 which is 41.08% (not 55 as it's written here) http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/icteye/Reporting/ShowReportFrame.aspx?ReportName=/BDT/DynamicReportPublic&ReportFormat=HTML4.0&RP_intLanguageID=1&RP_strCodeIDs=11624&RP_intClassID=0&RP_strCountryIDs=308&RP_bitLatest=True&RP_intYearFrom=-1&RP_intYearTo=-1&RP_strGroupping=rbLatestCty_rCod_rYer_c

And South Sudan doesn't have info either, but it is on list of countries.

UAE has other population info on their wiki page which is 8 million and not 4, so it should be checked. (just mentioning, but I'm sure you will find newest info about population in each country)

Taiwan too doesn't have infos. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.178.222.27 (talk) 20:11, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

It looks like the ITU spreadsheet, Percentage of Individuals using the Internet, available at http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Documents/statistics/2013/Individuals_Internet_2000-2012.xls, has been updated to include data for 2012 as well. --Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 21:11, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

 Done. The article has been updated to use the 2012 figures from the ITU. --Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 02:11, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Pakistan

According to the 2012 ITU penetration number (9.96) and the population number from the US Census Bureau (193,238,868) the number of internet user in Pakistan should be 19,246,591 which is higher than the number stated in the table (18,960,037). Even further still a June 2013 report states that number of Internet users in Pakistan has crossed the 30m mark. So shouldn't the number in the table be changed?. Wiki.0hlic_(Talk)

 Not done. I think the figures for Pakistan in the table now are correct. The table uses data for 2012 from the ITU and from the U.S. Census Bureau. The percentage penetration figure for 2012 given in the ITU spreadsheet is 9.9637. This is rounded to two decimal places for display in the ITU spreadsheet (9.96) and to one decimal place in the table (10.0). The 2012 population figure for Pakistan from the U.S. Census Bureau is 190,291,129. 193,238,868 is the figure for 2013. Doing the math (190,291,129 * .099637) gives 18,960,037 which is the figure shown in the table. We don't want to move to data from 2013 for Pakistan until we can make the same move for all of the countries shown in the table. And we don't want to mix ITU data from 2012 with population figures from 2013. --Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 02:52, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Internet in Belgium

This conversation started on my talk page, but I thought I'd move it here where more people might see it. --Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 17:44, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Hello, I saw your note with an edit to Internet in Belgium. I had looked at the spreadsheet and didn't see number of users or a way to figure the ranking for number of users. I'm curious how you got the figure. Did you cross reference that table with population data for all the countries to find the number of Internet users in each country? That sounds like a ton of work - there must be a better way. I'm wondering how you came up with the 8.6 million figure. I just ran the question on Wolfram Alpha and it gives a figure of 9.1 million also with 82%, but it doesn't explain the source of their figures so I wouldn't call it a reliable source. Thanks for satisfying my curiosity, SchreiberBike talk 02:59, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

The figures in the "Internet in Belgium" article (and a lot of other "Internet in xxxx" articles) comes from the List of countries by number of Internet users article. They use data from the ITU as a common source. The ITU gives a percentage as you saw. The total population for most countries comes from figures from the U.S. Census Bureau. And the rest is simple math. It is a bit of work, but not too bad since you can get the data into a common spreadsheet using copy and paste and matching the country names from the two sources can be automated too. There are two notes, one for the population column and one for the percentage column in the article that try to explain what was done and some additional information on the talk page. We try to use data from a single source (the ITU) for all countries and to update the figures for all countries at the same time so that the figures will be comparable. This has the side effect of only needing to be updated once a year since the ITU data is updated once a year. And that cuts down on the work a bit.

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--Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 12:46, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your clear explanation. Seeing that you are using the figures for multiple countries' articles, that sounds like a good approach. SchreiberBike talk 17:32, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Please read this before updating the figures in the article:

I want to repeat the note that appears near the top of this talk page and also in an XML comment at the top of the article page in hopes that more people will see it:

--Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 16:50, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Why only removing Bangladesh? there are other countries like Pakistan, Palestine, Niue, Falkland islands, Ascension which are using figures from other source. Akib.H (talk) 17:54, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

Yes, the article needs some work. And new, more up-to-date figures are available from the ITU. So, my thought is to update all of the figures for all of the countries. That should get this article back into sync. It may take me a few days to get around to doing this work. -Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 00:20, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

At 16:10 on 7 June 2015‎ User:Us441 updated the the list to use the ITU's figures for 2013, the most recent country specific data available from the ITU. In a few cases, when data for 2013 wasn't available, data from prior years was used and notes or refs were added to make it clear when this was necessary and what data was used. I'd like to thank us441 for this work. I'm sure it was a big job. --Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 21:25, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

the wrong map of russia

the wrong map of russia

where is crimea? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.237.225.85 (talk) 18:28, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

New info from ITU for 2013.

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.NET.USER.P2

It's same like on itu page, but there is no online page, just can be downloaded in excel format, so I give this online page that you don't need to download it.

Still Palestine not included and for South Sudan no data.

There is no many new internet users in some countries compared to 2012. :/

 Done. On 7 June 2015‎ User:Us441 updated the the list to use the ITU's figures for 2013. --Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 21:47, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

2014 new data

http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Barjimoa (talk • contribs) 11:47, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

 Not done. The 2014 figures from Internet Live Stats seem to be estimates based mostly on the 2013 data from the ITU. The ITU data for 2013 is, at least in part, based on estimates that the ITU made based on prior years data from the individual countries. It seems best to stick with the official ITU data and avoid estimates that are based on estimates. On 7 June 2015‎ User:Us441 updated the the list to use the ITU's figures for 2013. --Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 21:53, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

All United Nations member states are included, except South Sudan.

This statement is wrong. I know the North Korean standpoint on the Internet, but it's still part of the UN. --2.245.198.6 (talk) 15:55, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

 Done. This got fixed on 17 May 2015‎ by User:Us441. The statement toward the top of the article now reads "All United Nations member states are included, except South Sudan and North Korea." --Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 21:42, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

Possible improvements?

After having spent most of the day working on updating this page, I have gotten to know it really well. However, here are some ideas that I feel should be discussed.

1. The data for the number of internet users is not from actual ITU estimates. Rather, they come from Wikipedians multiplying ITU estimates for penetration by population figures from another source. The penetration estimates are only 3-4 significant figures, so having the ITU estimates be precise numbers, especially in countries with large populations, seems very precise. Maybe it would be better to have internet user counts with 3-4 significant figures.

2. The term "penetration" is used to denote the percentage of population in each country using the internet. Although the meaning of the word "penetration" in this context is specified, and it is not very hard to figure out, I still believe that it might be better to do something more straightforward such as "percentage internet users" (maybe it would get too long, though.) Us441 (talk to me) (My piece) 21:18, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

On #1, I agree. I think it would be fine to round the number of Internet users to the nearest 1,000. --Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 22:05, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

On #2, I think using "Penetration" as the column heading as it is now is OK. As you say, it is explained toward the top of the article and other longer labels won't make a good column heading. But I don't feel strongly about this. An alternative might be "Percentage of population" which is longer, but perhaps not too long. --Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 22:05, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

Number and percentage mismatch for Indian figures

I think there is some mismatch between total number of internet users and percentage/penetration figures. The list shows about 300.34 million users but percentage is given as 19.1% which I think is wrong or both the figures have been taken from different sources and for different years becasue 300.34 million of Indian population would be about 24-25% not 19% as the list shows. I think that needs to be updated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 14.96.151.103 (talk) 14:51, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

New info from ITU for 2014.

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.NET.USER.P2

ITU report for 2014. on page 92. http://www.broadbandcommission.org/Documents/reports/bb-annualreport2015.pdf

 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.178.202.46 (talk) 11:43, 30 July 2015 (UTC) 

Name change

This article needs to be named List of countries by number of internet users. No capitol I in internet. Internet is a common noun.--Wyn.junior (talk) 19:38, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Remove recent changes

Is it possible that someone undo these changes for Bangladesh, Serbia and similar things. It's not from 2013. and it's not from 2014. which you have link here.

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.NET.USER.P2

ITU report for 2014. on page 92. http://www.broadbandcommission.org/Documents/reports/bb-annualreport2015.pdf

For 2015. it will be in July or August this year.

Thanks in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.178.147.235 (talk) 11:36, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Indonesia

Hello. Someone removed Indonesia from table during last changes. It would be best to make table for 2014. or to leave 2013. table, so undo all changes. This now is a mess. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.45.197.173 (talk) 09:33, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Infos for 2014. year from ITU

I compared this web page % of internet users with official ITU % of internet users per country and it's same. So on this page you can see full correct info for 2014.

http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users-by-country/2014/

For 2015. still is just estimate, so we wait till July. So if anyone has free time to update these numbers in table on this page from 2014. would be great. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.244.211.74 (talk) 08:22, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

http://www.internetlivestats.com/

What do you think about http://www.internetlivestats.com/ as source? Dawid2009 (talk) 11:49, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

It's okay for just 2014. Those 2015 and 2016. is estimate, so it's not correct number. When they make ITU numbers for 2015. someone can update this topic. (will not be estimate) Useless would be to make for 2014. when in max 1 month will come 2015. stats. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.45.201.200 (talk) 11:27, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Official infos for 2015. year from ITU

Here is official report for 2015. from ITU. Page 98. http://www.broadbandcommission.org/Documents/reports/bb-annualreport2016.pdf

Now is updated world bank page too. http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.NET.USER.P2 They rounded numbers.

Maybe internetlivestats will update their 2015. estimate page now with official infos.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.45.140.178 (talk) 11:27, 16 September 2016 (UTC) 

Kosovo?

Kosovo has one of the best internet connectivity in the world. Why is it not included in any of the lists? http://www.internetworldstats.com/top25.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.99.31.143 (talk) 05:24, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Palestine is not a member as well but it is still listed? Alikadrija (talk) 12:14, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

Kosovo isn't ITU member, precisely there is no official info from ITU about Kosovo internet users.

Internet users in 2015. official info from ITU

I made table of new info from ITU for 2015. Internet % are from ITU report.
Population numbers are from this web page: List_of_countries_by_population_(United_Nations) and it's same data as World Bank population data for 2015.
Don't know what to do with Taiwan and similar nations which don't have info from 2015. I wrote from which year it is near number of internet users. Maybe that it's in note?

Only thing which I didn't make in table is ranking by %. It's too much work, so if anyone wants to make that feel free to do it. Don't know how to make these notes about sources, so any help is good. Text in paragraphs before China and after Ascension.

When you do that you can copy table to main page. Link to internet users % on World bank: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.NET.USER.P2

Or ITU report page 96: www.broadbandcommission.org/Documents/reports/bb-annualreport2016.pdf

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Internet users in 2016. official info from ITU

I made table of new info from ITU for 2016.
Internet % are from ITU report in excel.
Population numbers for 2016. are from this web page: List_of_countries_by_population_(United_Nations).

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% Reality Checks (Babies use Internet?)

Looking at some of the alleged user %'s (e.g. Bermuda over 98%) one can only conclude Bermuda has a lot of highly connected infants and toddlers. When getting population and user data you need to define A) the number of people who could REALISTICALLY use the Internet and B) the number of UNIQUE users of the Internet.

Both numbers are hard to get so when I see a number above 98% or even 96% I am HIGHLY skeptical that this % is accurately reflecting A or B.

Look I wrote what is written in official ITU report about internet users. If they are wrong then this is wrong too. Everybody knows that it's not possible to have 100% of internet users, but it's okay info to know that somewhere is good enough penetration of internet users. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.18.63.165 (talk) 12:02, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

Presumably for people over 18 only — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:186:4301:20E:9DEE:E087:6180:6C03 (talk) 13:28, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

Also Monaco with like 102% wtf Esteban Outeiral Dias (talk) 11:14, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia vs Worldbank internet percentages

I collected internet usage percentages via WorldBank API from 2016 and compared with this page. Many counts are close between these two sources, but there are exceptions. If you're interested, the comparison is in this Excel file.

Some of the outliers, at both extremes:

Country	Wikipedia	World Bank	Wp:WB
Bosnia and Herzegovina	58465	31323	126.7%
Serbia	5914748	2521887	125.0%
Moldova	2882322	2521887	114.3%
...
Gambia	263627	377123	69.9%
Congo Dem.Rep.	1661161	4889515	34.0%
Myanmar	662008	13258325	5.0%

Erik Zachte (talk) 17:05, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

Only what I see as difference is that Bosnia is huge difference in %, others are just rounded numbers. If you look on number of users then it could be difference, because I made by wiki population page and itu %, so if WB has different population stats it is different here. Anyway soon will be published new ITU stats for 2017., so will need to make new table. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.201.224.23 (talk) 09:33, 14 July 2018 (UTC)

Inaccuracies

Iceland is over 98%. Seeing this, I assumed the data must be for people over 18 years old (or some other minimum age). Because obviously, babies can't use the internet... The ITU must set a minimum age when getting internet penetration data from somebody, right?

So... if that theory (of the data only being from people over 18) was correct, and it seems logical: then it's established that the total number of internet users is defined, on this page, by multiplying the percent that use internet in a country by that of the country's population... and a country's population include babies, small children, etc. Perhaps the total number of internet users should be multiplying the % of ppl using internet by the population of citizens *over 18*, rather than just the total population. And then, also clarifying these numbers are for people over 18 only...

Can someone check through the source to see if the data is set to a minimum age like 18? Because it wouldn't make sense that 2 year olds in Iceland go on the internet... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:186:4301:20E:9DEE:E087:6180:6C03 (talk) 13:49, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

Additionally, people keep changing some of the values for India and China to values that are clearly wrong. China's population is not 2.4 billion, the number of internet users is not 90 million, 90 million divided by 2.4 billion is not 63%, and India's internet users is not 1 billion more than its population. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.15.30.133 (talk) 21:33, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

About changes for pakistan and other countries

As name of page says there should be number of internet users for 2016. year and earlier. Official data is from ITU and world bank. Those are used here.

Last available data form those 2 is for 2017., but more than half countries don't have data for 2017., so I'm waiting for answer from ITU will they add data for them or not. If there will not be data for 2017. for those nations I or anyone else can update this page with data of 2017. In 1'st paragraph there should be changed to 2017. year and all old data (so which don't have numbers for 2017) should have year 2016 near their number as like it's now for some small (island) nations (like San marino, Montserrat, Niue...). http://prntscr.com/mcr2tw There is no use of this table if we will make data from different sources, because some aren't reliable.

So if you have time and will you can make 2017. data from this page. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.NET.USER.ZS And population numbers of 2017. List_of_countries_by_population_(United_Nations)

If not I will do it when I get answer from ITU. It could be in month or even more, but don't update pakistan, india, china...... numbers of 2018 year and later. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.201.136.9 (talk) 09:15, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

I got answer from ITU and here is complete info about internet users per country for 2017., so anyone can update whole table. https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Pages/stat/default.aspx?fbclid=IwAR1S20pqvs_NkwSKXUXEgHsEfXtwWupbtGc3-SzfNmY2fqdhlemgjzD05Fg — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.18.62.155 (talk) 16:54, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

Confusing Data about the internet users of Pakistan

While the list of 'Number of Internet users as of 2017' comprise from ITU 2017 reports, suddenly Pakistan is showing data of December 2018 from its own telecommunication authority website which left the list unreliable in the sense of ranking. I don't think it is fair in any means and very misleading. - Tarunno (talk) 11:23, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

As I said in paragraph before yours official data in 99.999 countries is from 2016which I updated back then. Few users non stop change for their countries (pakistan, bangladesh, india....) with data of 2018. If someone wants can update whole table with infos from those links which are official ITU info for 2017. But it's easier to change for their country and with wrong data.

Official ITU infos for 2017.

Updated article with official ITU info for 2017. Source: Internet users: https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Pages/stat/default.aspx?fbclid=IwAR1S20pqvs_NkwSKXUXEgHsEfXtwWupbtGc3-SzfNmY2fqdhlemgjzD05Fg Population: [[1]]

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LIST INTERNET USERS FRANCE

The number of internet users for France is wrong on your list. It was already over 55 million in 2016. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.200.72.245 (talk) 08:41, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

I go by official ITU info for % of internet users and UN info for population. That number gets when you do calculation.

"List of countries by number of internet users (redirects)" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Can't find topic.

I'm for staying like it is, precisely like it was for last complete official data. I will try to make for last official data for 2018., but it's not full for all countries. Just maybe 50 countries got data for 2018. Now revert to that data for 2017.

To those who revert this page to not itu official infos should stop doing it. This whole page started with official ITU info and should continue like that. If you want to make it correct then go to itu page and take last infos for 2018. year. There are no infos for 2020.

Population of China

Why has China a population of only 49 million in this list?-- Maxeto0910 (talk) 23:53, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Was something mixed up here?

It seems there was a typo or something was switched up, but Colombia has about the population of China and China has about 49 million people. And Colombia is ranked second despite having only 33 million internet users. And there may be more layers to this. In any case, I'm just confused 71.193.153.230 (talk) 02:48, 3 September 2020 (UTC)