Internet in Africa

Internet access and use in Africa has grown faster than anywhere else on the planet in the last decade increasing by an astonishing 2,527.4 % compared with just 151.7 % in North America. Translated into actual numbers there were 4,514,400 internet users in Africa at the end of 2000 compared with 634,863,323 today out of as total continental population of 1,373,486,514, however access varies widely from just 7.7% in Angola to 84.8% in Algeria. The data table below shows a breakdown of internet access across the countries of Africa where these wide discrepancies can be seen. These figures are correct as of June 2021.

Country	Population	Internet Access	As a % of Population	Facebook Subscribers
Algeria	44,616,6247	37,836,425	84.8%	25,920,000
Angola	33,933,610	8,980,670	7.7%	2,604,000
Benin	12,451,040	3,801,758	30.5%	1,740,000
Botswana	2,397,241	1,160,000	48.3%	1,157,000
Burkina Faso	21,497,096	1,606,122	13.1%	716,400
Burundi	12,255,433	1,606,122	13.1%	716,400
Cameroon	27,224,265	9,158,422	33.6%	4,443,000
Cape Verde	561,898	352,120	62.71 %	303,100
Central African Republic	4,919,981	557,085	11.3%	125,600
Chad	16,914,985	2,237,932	13.2%	561,500
Comoros	888,451	209,800	23.6%	209,800
Congo, Democratic Republic	92,377,993	16,355,917	17.7%	4,485,000
Congo, Republic of (Congo-Brazzaville)	5,657,013	893,700	15.8%	893,700
Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)	27,053,629	12,253,653	45.3%	6,200,000
Djibouti	1,002,187	548,832	54.8%	276,600
Egypt	104,258,327	54,741,493	52.5%	51,420,000
Equatorial Guinea	1,449,896	362,891	25.0%	130,000
Eritrea	3,601,467	248,199	6.9%	8,000
Eswatini (Swaziland)	1,172,362	665,245	56.7%	358,100
Ethiopia	117,876,227	21,147,255	17.9%	7,393,000
Gabon	2,278,825	1,367,641	60.0%	840,000
Gambia	2,486,945	472,550	19.0%	468,000
Ghana	31,732,129	14,767,818	46.5%	8,323,000
Guinea	13,497,244	2,551,672	18.9%	2,310,000
Guinea-Bissau	2,015,494	250,000	12.4%	140,000
Kenya	54,985,698	46,870,422	85.2%	10,830,000
Lesotho	2,159,0779	682,990	31.6%	490,900
Liberia	5,180,203	760,994	14.7%	658,200
Libya	6,958,532	5,857,000	84.2%	5,857,000
Madagascar	28,427,328	2,864,000	10.1%	2,864,000
Malawi	19,647,684	2,717,243	13.8%	637,600
Mali	20,855,735	12,480,176	59.8%	2,033,300
Mauritania	4,775,119	969,519	20.3%	927,300
Mauritius	1,273,433	919,000	72.2%	919,000
Morocco	37,344,795	25,589,581	68.5%	21,730,000
Mozambique	32,163,047	6,523,613	20.3%	2,756,000
Namibia	2,587,344	1,347,418	52.1%	792,000
Niger	25,130,817	3,363,848	13.4%	577,800
Nigeria	211,400,708	154,301,195	73.0%	31,860,000
Rwanda	13,276,513	5,981,638	45.1%	806,200
Sao Tome and Principe	223,368	63,864	28.6%	60,800
Senegal	17,196,301	9,749,527	56.7%	3,802,000
Seychelles	98,908	71,300	72.1%	71,300
Sierra Leone	8,141,343	1,043,725	12.8%	833,400
Somalia	16,359,504	2,089,900	12.8%	2,089,900
South Africa	60,041,994	34,545,165	57.5%	24,600,000
South Sudan	11,381,378	900,716	7.9%	436,600
Sudan	44,909,353	13,124,100	29.2%	1,300,000
Tanzania	61,498,437	23,142,960	37.6%	5,223,000
Togo	8,478,250	1,011,837	11.9%	860,500
Tunisia	11,935,766	8,170,000	68.4%	8,170,000
Uganda	47,123,531	18,502,166	39.3%	3,328,000
Western Sahara	611,875	28,000	4.6%	27,000
Zambia	18,920,651	9,870,427	52.2%	2,543,000
Zimbabwe	15,092,171	8,400,000	55.7%	1,303,000

Data courtesy of www.internetworldstats.com

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