Internet penetration in Latin America and the Caribbean 2024, by country

As of the first month of 2024, more than nine out of 10 people living in the Bahamas, Costa Rica, Antigua & Barbuda, and Chile were online, putting the countries in the top position regarding internet access in Latin America. Meanwhile, more than 85 percent of the populations of Uruguay, the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Brazil Guyana, and Jamaica were online. On the other hand, less than half of the population of Haiti had access to the internet. Overall, the internet penetration rate in Latin America stood at 74.63 percent. Growth in mobile connectivity…With investments in 4G infrastructure forecast to reach around 211.5 billion U.S. dollars by 2030, the improvement of mobile connectivity is radically changing the picture of access to the internet in Latin America and the Caribbean. One of the best examples is Peru, where the gap between urban and rural areas has greatly diminished in 2021, making its online audiences the fifth largest on the continent in 2023. …at an unequal rateDespite the improvements, Latin America and the Caribbean still face an enormous gap in internet access: the internet penetration rate in the subregion of South America was 80.6 percent in 2023, while only 68.4 percent of people in the Caribbean had access to the web. Despite its investments in mobile connectivity, most of the web traffic in Venezuela still originated from desktop devices in 2023, and only 70.9 Ecuadorians had access to mobile internet in 2023.

截至2024年首月，巴哈马、哥斯达黎加、安提瓜和巴布达以及智利等国的居民中，超过九成已接入互联网，使这些国家在拉丁美洲互联网接入率方面位居前列。与此同时，乌拉圭、多米尼加共和国、阿根廷、巴西、圭亚那和牙买加的人口中，超过八成亦已接入互联网。然而，海地仅有不到一半的人口能够使用互联网。总体而言，拉丁美洲的互联网普及率达到了74.63%。随着对4G基础设施的投资预计将在2030年达到约2115亿美元，移动连接性的提升正在根本性地改变拉丁美洲及加勒比地区互联网接入的格局。其中一个典型的例子是秘鲁，在2021年城乡之间的差距大幅缩小，使其在线受众在2023年成为拉丁美洲第五大。尽管取得了进展，拉丁美洲及加勒比地区在互联网接入方面仍然面临着巨大的差距：2023年，南美洲子区域的互联网普及率为80.6%，而加勒比地区仅有68.4%的人口能够上网。尽管委内瑞拉在移动连接性方面进行了投资，但2023年大部分网络流量仍源自桌面设备，且仅有70.9%的厄瓜多尔人能够使用移动互联网。