77.3% of the country’s population aged 6 years old and older used the Internet in the second quarter of the year 2023

In the second quarter of 2023, 77.3% of the country’s population aged 6 years old and older use the Internet, higher number in 4.3 percentage points compared to the same quarter of the last year and in 18.1 percentage points, compared to the same quarter of the year 2019. This was informed by the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI) in the technical report Statistics of Information and Communication Technologies in Households, prepared with the results of the National Household Survey (ENAHO).

According to residence area, in Lima Metropolitan area the population who are Internet users reached 89.2%, in the rest of the urban area 80.0% and in the rural area 51.2%.

On the other hand, 79.6% of men used the Internet and 75.0% of women accessed to this service, being a gender gap of 4.6 percentage points, in favor of men.

95.3% of the population aged 19 to 24 years old registered a greater percentage of the use of the Internet, followed by the 90.8% of the group aged 25 to 40 years and the 89.8% of the group aged 12 to 18 years. In addition, among the population aged 6 to 11 years and in the group aged 60 years and older, the 61.1% and the 40.2% use the Internet, respectively.

By comparing this period of study with the same quarter of the last year, the greater growth was observed between the population aged 41 to 59 years (in 6.9 percentage points), as well as in the population aged 60 years and older (5.2 percentage points). In lower proportion increased in the population aged 6 to 11 years (3.6 percentage points) and in the group aged 12 to 18 years (in 3.7 percentage points).

98.0% and 95.9% of the population with university and non-university education level respectively, used in greater proportion the Internet and reported increases of 1.2 and 3.6 percentage points, compared with the second quarter of the year 2022.

Likewise, 86.3% of the population with high-school education level and 48.7% with elementary and lower education accessed to this service, and grew in 4.6 and 5.3 percentage points, respectively, compared to the same quarter of the year 2022.

During the second quarter of 2023, in the 94.9% of the country’s households there is at least one member with cellphone; this coverage that sustained with no significant changes compared to the same quarter of 2022. Nevertheless, compared to the year 2019 increased in 2.3 percentage points.

The greater coverage was registered in Lima Metropolitan area with 97.0% that compared to the same quarter of 2022 showed no significant changes. In the rest urban area, the access of the households to cellphones was of 96.8% and in the rural area was of 87.5%.

The INEI informed that during the second quarter of 2023, 95.8% of the households of the country have at least one Information and Communications Technology, registering a slight decrease of 0.4 percentage point compared to the second quarter of 2022. While, compared to the same quarter of the year 2019m it increased in 1.9 percentage points.

On the other hand, the access to some Information and Communications Technology is larger in households which chief of household has superior education level. Thus, in the households with chief of households that has university and non-university superior education level the 99.7% and 99.4%, respectively have access to some ICT.

On the other hand, it was lower in households where the chiefs of household reached high-school education level (98.2%) and among those with elementary or lower education level (89.2%).