15% The proportion of the world’s population who were using the internet by the end of 2005
Millennium
Development Goal 8 : Develop a global partnership
for development
Target : In cooperation with the private sector, make
available the benefits of new technologies, especially
information and communications
By the end of 2005, just over 15 per cent
of the world’s population were using
the Internet. However, the proportions are
skewed in favour of richer countries. Over
half the population in developed regions
were using the Internet in 2005, compared
to 9 per cent in developing regions and
1 per cent in the 50 least developed countries.
Source: UN DESA, The Millennium Development
Goals Report 2007, New York, June 2007.
