Internet penetration is close to 100 percent in Korea, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, but below 2 percent in a number of sub-Saharan African nations. Unless we take specific steps to make access universal, by 2020 just 16 percent of people in the world’s poorest countries and only 53 percent of the total global population will be connected to the Internet. At this rate, universal Internet access in low-income nations won’t be achieved until 2042.
