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The 2025 edition of Measuring digital development: Facts and Figures was launched in November. The report, ITU’s annual reference publication on the state of global digital connectivity, showed that about three-quarters of the world’s population were using the Internet in 2025: 6 billion people, up from a revised estimate of 5.8 billion in 2024. However, 2.2 billion people remained offline in 2025, down from a revised estimate of 2.3 billion in 2024.
Other releases under the Measuring digital development series included:
- A special edition of Facts and Figures on landlocked developing countries
- Six publications on the state of digital development in the six ITU regions, prepared for the Regional Preparatory Meetings ahead of WTDC-25
ITU’s ICT Data Week 2025 gathered over 270 participants from 85 countries. The 20th edition of the World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Symposium took place under the theme “WTIS@20: The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Development Statistics.” For the first time, the annual meetings of ITU’s Expert Groups on Telecommunication/ICT Indicators and on ICT Household Indicators (EGTI and EGH) featured a workshop for ICT statistics practitioners.
Under the European Union-funded initiative Promoting and Measuring Universal and Meaningful Connectivity, regional workshops were held for the Pacific Islands, Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans, and Latin America, as part of an 11-workshop series launched in 2024.
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ITU DataHub
New features were added to the ITU DataHub, including customizable country profiles, a new ICT Price Dashboard, a host of new indicators, more disaggregated data, and improved visualizations, notably for digital skills.
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