Dataset
Adoption of communication technologies per 100 people
owid.ict-adoption-per-100-people
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About
Share of the population who used the Internet in the last three months.
Cite as: International Telecommunication Union (ITU), via World Bank (2026) – processed by Our World in Data. “Landline phone subscriptions” [dataset]. International Telecommunication Union (ITU), via World Bank, “World Development Indicators 129” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 1960–2025
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2026-07-27
- Units
- % of population; per 100 people
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ict-adoption-per-100-people
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| it_mlt_main_p2 | number | Landline phone subscriptions (per 100 people) |
| it_net_bbnd_p2 | number | Landline Internet subscriptions (per 100 people) |
| it_cel_sets_p2 | number | Mobile phone subscriptions (per 100 people) |
| it_net_user_zs | number | Share of the population using the Internet (% of population) |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |