16.09499931%
Individuals using the Internet (% of population) in 2024.
Internet use · AFG · 2024
Afghanistan internet use rate: 16.09499931%
16.09499931% of people in Afghanistan used the internet in 2024. Among the 182 countries currently included in this verified same-year dataset, Afghanistan ranks 177th.
2024 OBSERVATION · AFG · IT.NET.USER.ZSHow Afghanistan compares
177th of 182
This rank applies only to the countries currently included in this verified same-year dataset, not to a complete worldwide ranking.
66.00839805999999 pp below median
Afghanistan is 66.00839805999999 percentage points below the 82.10339737% median of the 182 included countries and 83.90500069000001 percentage points below the highest included value of 100%.
Closest included countries
Niger
15.55760002% in 2024, 0.537399289999998 percentage points lower.
Zambia
17.10099983% in 2024, 1.0060005200000006 percentage points higher.
Central African Republic
13.78250027% in 2024, 2.3124990399999987 percentage points lower.
Definition and provenance
Indicator: IT.NET.USER.ZS — Individuals using the Internet (% of population).
Individuals who have used the Internet from any location in the last 3 months.
Source: International Telecommunication Union (ITU), World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database, surfaced via World Bank World Development Indicators (WDI), Indicators API v2. Unit: % of population. License: CC BY-4.0.
Observation year: 2024. Retrieved: 23 August 2026. Retrieval date is not treated as the observation year.
Please cite the International Telecommunication Union for third-party use of these data.
World Bank indicator page → · WDI metadata → · Country JSON → · Country CSV → · Full JSON → · Full CSV →
Scope note
This page reports the 2024 observation from the same validated same-year dataset used by the parent comparison. It does not claim a historical WDI revision, a causal explanation or a complete global rank.