The State of Digital 2022: Internet Growth
3 min readMar 7, 2022
A bumper year of internet adoption.
Every year, I eagerly anticipate the publication of We Are Social and Hootsuite’s comprehensive report on worldwide digital growth.
This year’s Digital 2022 Global Overview Report reveals that most of the connected world continues to grow faster than it did before the pandemic.
This is a lengthy report, clocking in at nearly 8,000 words. In this article I’ll highlight some of the key global figures to pay attention to.
Check out the complete report at the link below to learn more about the data and view country-specific information.
- Global population: The world’s population stands at 7.91 billion in January 2022, with over half (57.0 percent) of the world’s population now lives in urban areas.
- Global mobile users: More than two-thirds (67.1 percent) of the world’s population now uses a mobile phone, representing a growth of 1.8 percent (95 million new mobile users) over the past year.
- Global internet users: Global internet users have climbed to 4.95…
