{"id":3867,"date":"2021-11-30T17:37:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T16:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/30\/more-than-a-third-of-worlds-population-has-never-used-the-internet-says-un\/"},"modified":"2021-11-30T17:37:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T16:37:33","slug":"more-than-a-third-of-worlds-population-has-never-used-the-internet-says-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/30\/more-than-a-third-of-worlds-population-has-never-used-the-internet-says-un\/","title":{"rendered":"More than a third of world\u2019s population has never used the internet, says UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Estimated 2.9 billion people, 37% of the population, have never been online despite overall rise in internet use<\/p>\n<p>2.9 billion people \u2013 37% of the world\u2019s population \u2013 have never used the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/internet\">internet<\/a>, according to the United Nations, despite the Covid-19 pandemic driving people online.<\/p>\n<p>The UN\u2019s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) estimated that 96% of those 2.9 billion live in developing countries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/nov\/30\/more-than-a-third-of-worlds-population-has-never-used-the-internet-says-un\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7e57ca4f4e5745dabd183a5caca025bcc7847255\/0_0_5215_3128\/master\/5215.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a26b0f2925aaca4664979bb1e5ec1ba6\" title=\"More than a third of world\u2019s population has never used the internet, says UN\" \/>Estimated 2.9 billion people, 37% of the population, have never been online despite overall rise in internet use<br \/>\n2.9 billion people \u2013 37% of the world\u2019s population \u2013 have never used the internet, according to the United Nations, despite the Covid-19 pandemic driving people online.<br \/>\nThe UN\u2019s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) estimated that 96% of those 2.9 billion live in developing countries. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estimated 2.9 billion people, 37% of the population, have never been online despite overall rise in internet use 2.9 billion people \u2013 37% of the world\u2019s population \u2013 have never used the internet, according to the United Nations, despite the Covid-19 pandemic driving people online. The UN\u2019s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) estimated that 96% of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/30\/more-than-a-third-of-worlds-population-has-never-used-the-internet-says-un\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More than a third of world\u2019s population has never used the internet, says UN<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3867"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}