Nigeria the number-one with the highest internet penetration rate on the continent

On the 25th February, 2021 at about 5:37 AM, I received an email from “The Internet World Stats”.

 

According to (University, 2021) “The Internet World Stats (IWS) is an international website that features up to date world Internet usage, population statistics, travel stats and internet market research data, for over 233 individual countries and world regions.”

 

Well, if you are curious enough to visit, here you go!

https://www.internetworldstats.com

 

Actually, I have been a subscriber since 2nd January, 2016 at about 1:47PM, barely over 5 years now. The name of the CEO/Editor/Webmaster is Enrique de Argaez from Bogota, Colombia.

 

On his Twitter handle @deargaez he wrote:

“I have been doing Internet Market Research since 1997. First as a hobby, now it's my full time job. Please visit Internet World Stats dot com to see some of my work.”

Jokes apart, I think if you love DATA, you should be a fan of IWS!

 

The FLASH NEWS is that Nigeria is currently leading on Internet Penetration Rate (IPR) in Africa.

 

According to (Stats, 2021) Nigeria is a country with over 200 million people, about 211,400,708 (2021 Est.), although if you pick up your Android device and say:

“Hey Google, what is the population of Nigeria”

Google will reply by saying  it's about 201 million as at 2019 fair enough, internet world start is trying her best I can say.

 

By the way I'm actually typing all these using the “Voice Typing” feature from Google Docs, great feature and you should try it out - it's quite fun!

Something interesting from the data I saw on IWS website - did you know that in the year 2000, Nigeria had about just 200,000 internet users but today after 21 years the INTERNET USERS has jumped to about 203 million users as at 31st December, 2020.

Currently also, Nigeria's internet penetration rate - if you're considering the percentage of the population, is running at about 96% and the number of users on Facebook is just about 31 million - surprising!

This utmost makes Nigeria the number-one with the highest internet penetration rate on the continent.

Let me run through the first 10 for you: 

1. Nigeria 

2. Kenya

3. Libya

4. Mauritius

5. Seychelles

6. Morocco

7. Tunisia

8. Reunion

9. Cabo Verde

10. Gabon

Now let's look up the POPULATION STATISTICS for the first 10 countries in Africa:

1. Nigeria

2. Ethiopia

3. Egypt

4. Democratic Republic of Congo

5. Tanzania

6. South Africa

7. Kenya

8. Uganda

9. Sudan

10. Algeria

Now let's jump to INTERNET USERS

1. Nigeria

2. Egypt

3. Kenya

4. South Africa

5. Morocco

6. Algeria

7. Tanzania

8. Ethiopia

9. Uganda

10. Democratic Republic of Congo

Now let's jump to FACEBOOK USERS, here something interesting really happened that surprised me actually - EGYPT has the highest number of users when it comes to FACEBOOK USERS in Africa even ahead of Nigeria, yeah that's correct let's run through the first 10:

1. Egypt

2. Nigeria

3. Algeria 

4. South Africa

5. Morocco

6. Kenya

7. Tunisia

8. Ghana

9. Ethiopia

10.  Ivory Coast

 I hope this was informative.

Thank you.

#InternetWorldStats

References:

Stats, I. W. (2021, March 3). Internet World Stats. Retrieved March 3, 2021, from Internet World Stats: https://www.internetworldstats.com/stats1.htm

University, V. S. (2021, March 12). Valdosta State University. Retrieved March 12, 2021, from Valdosta State University: https://mypages.valdosta.edu/nhaverett/Presentation.html