78.7% of the population of 6 years of age and older of the country use the Internet in the third quarter of 2023
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29 de December de 2023 - 3:04 p. m.
During the quarter of July-August-September of 2023, 78.7% of the population of 6 years of age and older of the country use the Internet, increasing in 4.1 percentage points more than the same quarter of the last year (74.6%) and compared with the same quarter of the year 2019 (60.2%), it grew in 18.5 percentage points. This was informed by the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI), in the technical report Statistics of the Information and Communication Technologies in the 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 89.7%, followed by the rest of the urban population (81.6%) and in rural area (52.8%).
Nevertheless, the greater increases were registered in the rural area with 9.6 percentage points (by going from 43.2% to 52.8%), followed by Lima Metropolitan area with 2.9 percentage points (by going from 86.8% to 89.7%) and 2.6 percentage points in the rest of the urban population (by going from 79.0% to 81.6%).
On the other hand, the INEI informed that the 80.3% of men and 77.1% of women accessed to the Internet service, being a difference among both cases of 3.2 percentage points in favor of men.
Access to the Internet is led by the population of 19 to 24 years of age
96.5% of the population of 19 to 24 years old are those that use most the Internet, a figure greater in 1.5 percentage points, compared with the third quarter of the year 2022. Followed by the group of 25 to 40 years of age (91.7%) and the population of 12 to 18 years of age (90.8%), registering increases of 4.2 and 2.2 percentage points, respectively; compared to the same quarter of the last year.
It is worth to mention that the population of 60 years of age and over was the segment that showed a greater increase in the access to the Internet with 7.3 percentage points (by going from 36.8% to 44.1%) and in 6.2 percentage points in the population of 41 to 59 years of age (from 70.9% to 77.1%).
57.0% of the households of the country have Internet connection
During the quarter under study, 57.0% of households of the country have an Internet connection a lower figure in 1.7 percentage points, compared to the same quarter of the last year (58,7%).
The greater reductions were registered in the rest of the urban population with 3.5 percentage points (by going from 62.0% to 58.5%). Followed by the rural area in 1.4 percentage points (by going from 21.3% to 19.9%) and in Lima Metropolitan area in 0.4 percentage point (by going from 78.3% to 77.9%).
90.9% of the population that use the Internet do it through the cellphone
During the third quarter of the year 2023, 90.9% of the population of 6 years of age and older that use the Internet, do it through a cellphone (with or without data plan), a higher figure in 1.8 percentage points more than in the same quarter of the year 2022 (89.1%).
By residence area, 94.5% that use the Internet lives in Lima Metropolitan area, 89.8% of the rural area and the 88.3% in the rest of the urban population. Results that compared with the same quarter of the year 2022 presented progresses in Lima Metropolitan area and in the rural area of 3.9 and 1.3 percentage points, respectively. Meanwhile in the rest of the urban population it did not register significant changes, by keeping in the same levels.
In the 94.6% of the households of the country there is at least a member with a cellphone During the quarter under analysis, 94.6% of the households of the country there are at least one member with cellphone, a figure that did not showed any significate variation compared con to the same quarter of 2022 (94.7%); meanwhile by comparing to the same quarter of the year 2019 (92.1%) increased in 2.5 percentage points.
By residence area, the greater coverage was registered in the rest of the urban population in 97.2%, that compared to the same quarter of the year 2022 did not registered significant changes (97.0%). In Lima Metropolitan area, the Access of the households to the cellphone was of 96.3%, followed by the rural area with the 86.1%.
According to education level of the chief of the household, 99.0% and 98.8% of those with non-university and university superior education level, accessed to the mobile phone respectively. Those with high-school education level reached 97.7% and those with elementary or lower education level reached 86.4%.