More than half of Filipinos cannot afford Internet connections: “Internet Poor” study
The Philippines is leading in Southeast Asia for the number of so-called “Internet Poor,” which are people who cannot afford a minimum package of Internet for their personal use.
This is the result of the latest Internet Poverty Index by Vienna, Austria-based data enterprise World Data Lab which focuses on modeling and forecasting spending power and demographic dynamics worldwide in a number of sectors.
The Philippines ranked ahead of Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and even Myanmar and Cambodia in the list, while Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei are the “Internet-richest“countries in the region.
Worldwide – among 169 countries included in the index – the Philippines ranked seventh with the largest number of “Internet Poor” and 38th as a share of the population. This translates to over 58 million Filipinos who cannot afford an Internet package, let alone a device to use it.
Seventh “Internet poorest” country in the world
World Data Lab measures the number of people who cannot afford a basic package of connectivity – currently set at 1.5 gigabytes per month at a minimum download speed of three megabits per second (equivalent to six seconds to load a standard web page).
Overall, World Data Lab found that almost 1.4 billion people in the world are living without Internet as of this April. Some 51 per cent, or around 715 million, of those affected by Internet poverty live in Nigeria, India, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Brazil, Pakistan – Philippines – Tanzania, Indonesia and South Africa.
[caption id="attachment_38394" align="alignleft" width="300"] The Philippines has one of the largest Internet access inequalities in the world[/caption] The Philippines is leading in Southeast Asia for the number of so-called “Internet Poor,” which are people who cannot afford a minimum package of Internet for their personal use. This is the result of the latest Internet Poverty Index by Vienna, Austria-based data enterprise World Data Lab which focuses on modeling and forecasting spending power and demographic dynamics worldwide in a number of sectors. The Philippines ranked ahead of Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and even Myanmar and Cambodia in the list, while Malaysia,...
The Philippines is leading in Southeast Asia for the number of so-called “Internet Poor,” which are people who cannot afford a minimum package of Internet for their personal use.
This is the result of the latest Internet Poverty Index by Vienna, Austria-based data enterprise World Data Lab which focuses on modeling and forecasting spending power and demographic dynamics worldwide in a number of sectors.
The Philippines ranked ahead of Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and even Myanmar and Cambodia in the list, while Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei are the “Internet-richest“countries in the region.
Worldwide – among 169 countries included in the index – the Philippines ranked seventh with the largest number of “Internet Poor” and 38th as a share of the population. This translates to over 58 million Filipinos who cannot afford an Internet package, let alone a device to use it.
Seventh “Internet poorest” country in the world
World Data Lab measures the number of people who cannot afford a basic package of connectivity – currently set at 1.5 gigabytes per month at a minimum download speed of three megabits per second (equivalent to six seconds to load a standard web page).
Overall, World Data Lab found that almost 1.4 billion people in the world are living without Internet as of this April. Some 51 per cent, or around 715 million, of those affected by Internet poverty live in Nigeria, India, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Brazil, Pakistan – Philippines – Tanzania, Indonesia and South Africa.
