The Philippines now has the heaviest Internet users in the world, according to a new report.
Digital 2019 Philippines (January 2019) v01 from DataReportal
MANILA, Philippines – We Are Social and Hootsuite released their annual digital report, which gives a global overview of the number of online users, social media users, the amount of time people spend online, and the most popular social apps we use.
Their scope spans the entire world, and have specific reports for each country.
Globally, here are the key stats:
- There are now 5.11 billion unique mobile users today, increasing by 100 million in the past year.
- Total number of internet users has grown from 4.24 billion to 4.39 billion, a growth of 9 percent, since January 2018.
- A year ago there were 3.19 billion social media users. Now there are 3.48 billion, representing a 9% growth as well.
- Of these 3.48 billion users, 3.26 billion of them use social media on mobile devices, growing by 10% from the past year.
In the Philippines, time spent online daily soared from 9 hours and 29 minutes last year to 10 hours and 2 minutes this year, the highest in the world. Coming in second is Brazil, clocking in at 9 hours and 29 minutes, while Thailand is third at 9 hours and 11 minutes. Last year, the Philippines came in second to Thailand at 9 hours and 38 minutes.
The worldwide average is 6 hours and 42 minutes, with Japan spending the least amount of time online at 3 hours and 45 minutes.
The Philippines also tops the world in terms of internet usage in front of a desktop or laptop computer, clocking in at 5 hours and 4 minutes daily, far from the global average of 3 hours and 28 minutes. Fixed internet speed grew from 15.19 Mbps average to 19 Mbps. The global average is 54.3 Mbps.
