Fact
File
Access
to information and ideas through better telecommunications could significantly
help poorer communities in the future�.
� Guy Mansfield/Panos Pictures
- Today, only 2% of the world's population are linked to the internet. 88% of internet users are in industrial countries, home to 15% of the world's population.
- 50% of all internet users are in North America.
- 75% of the world's telephones are found in 8 countries.
- There are more telephone lines in Tokyo than in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa.
- In 1990, 22 countries were connected to the internet. By 1999, 226 countries were connected.
