Half the world online by Christmas
 

Milestone

By the end of the year, the world will have crossed a milestone with more than half its population connected to the world-wide web.

According to the United Nations the numbers will remain concentrated in the developed world, where 80 per cent of the population use the net.

According to the UN's International Telecommunications Union (ITU) only about 40 percent in developing countries and less than 15 percent in less-developed countries are online. n several of Africa's poorer and more fragile countries, only one person in 10 is on the internet.

The offline population is female, elderly, less educated, poorer and lives in rural areas, said the union, a specialized agency for information and communication technologies.

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