# Internet access

> A printable one-page fact sheet on who is online: big-number facts, a then-and-now pictogram and waffle charts by region and income group, from ITU and World Bank data.

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 bn** people used the internet in 2025, 73.6% of the world
- **2.2 bn** are still offline, most of them in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
- **×5.9** more people online than in 2005, when 1.0 billion were connected
- **×4** the 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.

**2005**__15.6%__

**2025**__73.6%__

## 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.

Source: [ITU, Facts and Figures](https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/) via the [World Bank](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.NET.USER.ZS), as compiled by [Our World in Data](https://ourworldindata.org/internet).