Worldwide, 79 per cent of people aged between 15 and 24 use the Internet, 14 percentage points more than among the rest of the population (65 per cent). This gap between generations has been stable over the last four years and is observed in every region. Universality, deemed achieved when at least 95 per cent of people use the Internet, has already been reached by this age group in high-income and upper-middle-income economies.
In low-income countries, 15- to 24-year-olds are almost twice as likely to use the Internet than other people in those countries, in relative terms. While this is the largest usage gap of any income group, it has shrunk since 2019 when 15- to 24-year-olds were 2.5 times more likely to use the Internet than the rest of the population in low-income countries.