5 data on access to the internet in Latin America – LadoCulto

“In the more advanced countries in the field, such as the Republic of Korea and Norway, the figures exceed 50% of connections above 15 Mbps,” the report said.

The ECLAC considered that although there is progress, there remain problems related to the quality of the service, such as speed of connection and equity in the internet access, depending on the geographical location and the socio-economic situation of the population. 85% of households in countries belonging to the OECD are connected.

according To the study The ecosystem and the digital economy in Latin America (Raul Katz, 2015), 78,4% of the Internet users in the region participate in digital social networks, compared to a global average of 63,6%.

on the other hand, we observe a difference of up to 41 percentage points in the internet penetration between urban and rural areas in the country that shows the biggest gap in the region: Bolivia.

The document, which will be revealed at the second meeting of the Conference of Science, Innovation and ICT (Information Technology and Communication), which will be held in the hotel Aurola Holiday Inn San Jose, exalting that the number of households connected to the Internet in Latin America and the Caribbean grew by 14.1%, as the annual average in the past five years.

With all the multilateral agency noted the high heterogeneity among the countries of the region.

“the State of the broadband 2016,” explains that among the 24 countries of the region analyzed there was a significant difference in the levels of access to the internet in 2015.

the director of the division of Productive Development and Business of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Mario Cimoli.

In the prepaid rates of less duration (one day), the countries with the greatest affordability in January of 2016 were Argentina and Paraguay, while in the opposite was Honduras; in the term of 30 days, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Mexico and Costa Rica had the best affordability, with lower costs to 2%. In this country is between 15 and 45% of households have internet access.

The countries in which more grew up, the connections home between 2010 and 2015 were Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Bolivia, countries that had very low rate of penetration.

54.4 % of the inhabitants of Latin America and the Caribbean used internet in 2015, 20 percentage points more in 2010, “what gives account of the major advances in the access to and the affordability of the service registered in the region in the last five years,” says the document. Between 2010 and 2015, the number of mobile subscriptions grew 802.5%, and the fixed connections, to 68.9%. In countries such as Peru, the growth of the broadband mobile was of 4.000%. “[In the first quarter of 2016] Chile was the nation with increased speed at 7.3 Mbps), and Venezuela had the lowest, with 1.9 Mbps”, says the report which adds that “in the average speed in peak hour, the nation with more registry was Uruguay with 70,8 Mbps, superior to those of the united States (67,8 Mbps) and Canada (59,6 Mbps)”.