Only 3 Percent of Indian Population has Access to Home Internet
Bangalore: Information and accessibility these days comes together with the availability of internet, which is the modern guise of power to the masses in countries around the world. Keeping this in mind, the need to know how many people in a country have access to the internet from home becomes a crucial question to ask. The consulting firm Gallup conducted a survey with the core question to adults worldwide - ‘Does your home have access to the Internet’, and it came up with a report with striking findings.
The report shows that in India only 3 percent of the country’s population had access to home internet in 2011. Even though internet usage is booming in India over the years, it is one of the lowest ranking countries among the BRIC nations, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. BRIC nations are the nations which are in the same stage of newly advanced economy.
As per the survey, even China, the world’s second largest economy shows just 34 percent of home internet access, which still makes it at par with the global average.
It is also important to note that the results of the survey reflect the percentage of adults who answered yes, rather than the percentage of households in a given country with Internet access, reported gallup.com.
