Globally, 82 per cent of people aged 15 to 24 use the Internet, ten percentage points more than among the rest of the population (72 per cent). This generational gap, observed in every region, has been slowly shrinking over the last four years. In this age group, “universality,” meaning when the penetration rate is at least 95 per cent, has already been achieved in Europe, the CIS region and the Americas region.
In relative terms, 15- to 24-year-olds in low-income countries are 1.9 times more likely to use the Internet than the rest of the population. This is the largest generational gap of any income group, with 15- to 24-year-olds in high-income countries only five percent more likely to use the Internet than the rest of the population.