4.4 billion people around the world still don’t have Internet.
4.4 billion people scattered across the globe, including 3.2 billion living in only 20 countries, still aren't connected to the Internet.
But adjusting for size, and instead looking at the percentage of people in certain countries that still aren't connected to Internet, shows that quite a few places have very little internet penetration at all. In Myanmar, 99.5 percent of the population is offline, in Ethiopia, almost 98 percent ; in Tanzania, more than 95 percent; and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, just under 95 percent.
- Most of the world's offline population, some 64 percent, live in rural settings, where poor infrastructure, health care, education, and employment, impede Internet adoption, the study says. In India, for instance, roughly 45 percent of the population lives without electricity, making Internet access all the more unthinkable.
- Roughly 900 million of people ................