Statistics

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The estimates featured in ITU’s Facts and Figures 2024 show that connectivity continues to increase worldwide but reveal the complexities of reaching communities in low-income countries. An estimated 5.5 billion people are online in 2024.

Special editions of Facts and Figures – Facts and Figures: Focus on Small Island Developing States and Facts and Figures: Focus on Landlocked Developing Countries​ tracked progress made by SIDS and LLDCs.

New features were added to ITU DataHub, including a map visualization, enhanced country profiles, and the ICT Development Dashboard.

As part of a three-year project to advance UMC, funded by the European Union, BDT kicked off a series of regional workshops on measuring UMC aimed at policymakers, policy analysts, and statisticians from ministries of ICT/telecommunication, regulatory bodies, and national statistical offices.

As a Knowledge Partner for the Digital Economy Working Group under the 2024 G20 Presidency of Brazil, BDT contributed to the publication “Universal and meaningful connectivity: A framework for indicators and metrics”, which advocates for universal and meaningful connectivity (UMC), proposes relevant indicators, assesses the statistical capacity of G20 economies, introduces new measurement approaches, and offers recommendations.

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