Global average is 43%...China is 58%...India is 17%
Of major regions, the United States came top with 72%, followed by Europe (60%) and the Middle East (57%.), Less than half (43%) of Latin Americans have a smartphone.
In Asia/Pacific more people own a mobile phone than a smartphone, and in Africa less than one in five people use a smartphone.
The smartphone digital divide is clear, with a difference of 84 percentage points between the country with the most smartphone owners, South Korea, and the country with the least – Ethiopia at 4%.
Pew notes that here is a strong correlation between country wealth and smartphone ownership, which corresponds with the digital divide for internet connectivity.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Of major regions, the United States came top with 72%, followed by Europe (60%) and the Middle East (57%.), Less than half (43%) of Latin Americans have a smartphone.
In Asia/Pacific more people own a mobile phone than a smartphone, and in Africa less than one in five people use a smartphone.
The smartphone digital divide is clear, with a difference of 84 percentage points between the country with the most smartphone owners, South Korea, and the country with the least – Ethiopia at 4%.
Pew notes that here is a strong correlation between country wealth and smartphone ownership, which corresponds with the digital divide for internet connectivity.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
