Worldwide, 79 per cent of people aged 15 to 24 use the Internet, 13 percentage points more than among the rest of the population (66 per cent). This gap, observed in every region, has been slowly shrinking over the last four years. In this age group universality – at least 95 per cent Internet users – has already been achieved in Europe, the CIS region and the Americas.
In relative terms, 15 to 24-year-olds in low-income countries are 1.9 times more likely to use the Internet than other individuals. While this is the largest gap of any income group, it is a slight improvement from 2021, when the figure was 2.2.