A fact sheet meant to be printed as well as read: big-number facts, a pictogram
comparing 2005 with 2025 and a waffle chart for every region and income group, each
square one percent of its people. It sits on one sheet in the browser's print preview,
and a @media print block drops the page chrome and keeps the colors.
Three in four people are online. One in four is not.Fact sheet · 2025
6.1 bnpeople used the internet in 2025, 73.6% of the world
2.2 bnare still offline, most of them in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
×5.9more people online than in 2005, when 1.0 billion were connected
×4the online share in high-income countries, 94%, against 23% in low-income
ones
Then and now
Each figure is a tenth of the world's people.
200515.6%
202573.6%
By region
Each square is one percent of the region's people · hover a chart.
Online in 2005
Came online since
Offline in 2025
By income group
World Bank income classification.
Share of individuals who used the internet in the last three months. Source: ITU via
the World Bank's World Development Indicators, as compiled by Our World in Data;
world population from UN World Population Prospects 2024.
Data table
Group
2005, %
2025, %
Change, pp
How it's built
The pictogram is ten empty <i> elements. Each is
painted with a two-stop linear-gradient and cut to a person's shape with
a CSS mask, so a figure can be partly filled: the 15.6% row fills one and
a half figures, with no SVG drawing at all.
Each waffle is a ten-by-ten CSS grid of squares, filled from the
bottom row up in two shades of one hue: those online in 2005, and those who came
online since. One sequential hue keeps it a single measure seen at two dates.
Print: a @media print block sets
print-color-adjust: exact so the squares keep their color, removes the
sheet's frame and keeps every chart from splitting across pages.
