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Number of internet users increases in Azerbaijan – IWS

ICT Materials 4 March 2018 12:10 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, March 4

By Huseyn Valiyev – Trend:

The level of internet access in Azerbaijan was 80.6 percent as of Dec. 31, 2017, according to a report on the number of users of the global network published by the Internet World Stats (IWS).

The report says that the number of internet users in the country reaches almost eight million people, which is by 6.2 percent more as compared to the indicators as of March 31, 2017.

The internet market of Azerbaijan still makes up 0.4 percent of the total volume of the Asian market.

Azerbaijan is ahead of Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan among the states of the South Caucasus and Central Asia in terms of the level of internet access among the population.

Kazakhstan, where more than 13.8 million people live, ranks first among the countries of the South Caucasus and Central Asia, indicated in the IWS report, in terms of the number of internet users.

According to the report, Asian countries account for 48.1 percent of all internet users in the world. In total, there are more than 4.2 billion users of the global network in Asia.

Indicators on the level of internet access among the population in the countries of the South Caucasus and Central Asia:

Country

Internet users (as of Dec. 31, 2017)

Percentage of users in relation to the population

Percentage of users in relation to the total indicator of Asia

Azerbaijan

7,999,431

80.6

0.4

Kazakhstan

18,403,860

76.4

0.7

Armenia

2,934,152

72.5

0.1

Georgia

3,907,131

68

0.1

Uzbekistan

32,364,996

47.7

0.8

Kyrgyzstan

6,132,932

40.7

0.1

Tajikistan

9,107,211

33.1

0.1

Turkmenistan

5,851,466

17.9

0.1

Total in Asia

4,207,588,157

48.1

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