Daniel Slotta
Research expert covering Greater China
Men and women online - Statistics & Facts
Factors such as the modernization of countries around the world, the rise of smartphones and mobile devices, and the technology advance have given people the opportunity to use the internet more frequently and with more convenience. About 43 percent of the total global population had online access in 2015. The internet user rate varied according to market maturity and gender. About 82 percent of the population in developed markets had access to the internet in 2015, whereas the overall internet usage rate in developed countries stood at 35.3 percent. In general, the global male population has slightly more access to the internet than the global female. For instance, about 46 percent of the global male population had online access in 2015, against around 41 percent of female. In the United States, the difference is smaller; 89 percent of men in the United States had access to the internet in 2016, while the share of female internet users among adults in the United States stood at 86 percent that year.
