A recently study made by the website afrik.com has published last week, the 10 most African countries connected to internet. In the figures released by the website, Africans are among the most connected to the Internet in the world despite the lack of infrastructure. The connectivity of people in Africa has been increasing every year. Nigeria and Egypt are among the countries which have most of the users on the continent.
With a population of 1.037 billion people in 2012, Africa is the second most populous continent in the world and one of the most connected to the Internet. Nearly 7% of households have access to the web. The use of internet is increasing exponentially each year on the continent.
In 2012, Africa had more than 167 million Internet users, representing only 15% of the global population of users. It was 11% in 2011. This is equivalent to 7% of total global users. A lightning progression that has not come down since the year 2000.
Despite this high performance, a large proportion of Africans remain excluded from the use of this technology. According to the 2012 figures only 16% of the total population of the continent.
In Egypt, the second country with more users with 29.8 million people online, only 8% of the population had access to the web.
Top 10 of most connected African countries:
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Nigeria has 48.4 million users
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Egypt has 29.8 million users
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Morocco has 16.5 million users
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Kenya has 12 million users
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South Africa has 8.5 million users
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Sudan has 6.5 million users
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Tanzania has 5.6 million users
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Algeria has 5.2 million users
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Uganda has 4.4 million users
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Tunisia has 4.2 million users