ITU Stats Show 40 Percent Of World Online In 2013, Billions Still Not Connected 07/10/2013 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)The UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU) today released global statistics on information and communications technology, showing great advances in speed, reach and mobile connectivity, but with the reality that billions of humans are still not connected to the internet. According to the ITU, some 250 million additional people came online in 2012, and South Korea remained highest in the global ICT rankings for the third year in a row. By the end of 2013, some 40 percent of the world will be online, ITU said, but 4.4 billion people will remain unconnected. Meanwhile, nearly everyone in the world is within reach of mobile cellular service, it said. Read the detailed press announcement here. Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Related "ITU Stats Show 40 Percent Of World Online In 2013, Billions Still Not Connected" by Intellectual Property Watch is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.