18.96159935%
Individuals using the Internet (% of population) in 2024.
Internet use · MWI · 2024
Malawi internet use rate: 18.96159935%
18.96159935% of people in Malawi used the internet in 2024. Among the 182 countries currently included in this verified same-year dataset, Malawi ranks 173rd.
2024 OBSERVATION · MWI · IT.NET.USER.ZSHow Malawi compares
173rd of 182
This rank applies only to the countries currently included in this verified same-year dataset, not to a complete worldwide ranking.
63.141798019999996 pp below median
Malawi is 63.141798019999996 percentage points below the 82.10339737% median of the 182 included countries and 81.03840065 percentage points below the highest included value of 100%.
Closest included countries
Papua New Guinea
18.81159973% in 2024, 0.1499996199999991 percentage points lower.
Madagascar
18.67790031% in 2024, 0.2836990400000019 percentage points lower.
Congo, Dem. Rep.
19.67350006% in 2024, 0.7119007099999983 percentage points higher.
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.
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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.