While governments go all digital it doesn`t look like as many people as they think there are actually using the internet and where it is people are using it in a limited way.
From almost 100 per cent to less than 1 per cent, the younger population of countries worldwide don’t use the Internet as much as previously thought. Perhaps it’s the digital gaming population or social media users that push the impression that the younger generation is going to, well you know where, in a hand basket from too much computer time.
A study shows that only 30 per cent of people around the world between 15 and 24 years old have been on-line active for at least 5 years. The two ends of the bell curve are South Korea at 99.6 per cent and Timor Leste, an Asian island, barely tips the scale with less than 1 per cent. Japan is at the high end with 99.5 per cent. Not surprisingly, the United States is among the most users coming in at 96 per cent.
However, these figures don’t provide the whole picture. The numbers quoted are taking in total global users. Another way of looking at the statistics is to take the number of users in a given country’s population. In Iceland, which has the largest number of people on line, 13.9 per cent are within the age group studied. The study was carried out by the Georgia Institute of Technology and International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
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