Digital population in India 2024, by type

The introduction of the government’s Digital India initiative, hand in hand with the increasing internet penetration over the recent years, resulted in the country’s digital population surging over 751 million active users as of January 2024. The traffic in the world’s second largest internet market at this stage was largely dominated by mobile internet users. The causes and their effectsThe arrival of Reliance Jio services in 2007, provided people in the country with schemes and subsidies that were not only attractive, but easily affordable, irrespective of their income levels and socio-economic classes. The impact was almost instant, with over 60 percent of the mobile data traffic coming from Jio services in less than ten years of its launch. The future holds greater promiseThe number of internet users had increased over the years in rural as well as the urban areas . It seemed likely from previous trends that the launch of the Jio fixed line broadband service, called Gigafiber might aid in the already increasing internet penetration across the country. Along with the demonetization in late 2016, digitization penetrated the country at a staggering rate, nearly 50 percent in 2019.

政府数字印度倡议的推出，伴随着近年来互联网的日益普及，使得至2024年1月，我国的数字人口激增至超过7.51亿活跃用户。在此时段的全球第二大互联网市场中，流量主要被移动互联网用户所占据。2007年，信实Jio服务的推出，为国内民众提供了不仅诱人且易于负担的方案和补贴，无论其收入水平和社会经济阶层。其影响几乎是瞬间的，在Jio服务推出不到十年的时间内，超过60%的移动数据流量源自Jio服务。未来充满希望，互联网用户数量在城乡地区逐年增长。根据以往趋势，Jio固网宽带服务Gigafiber的推出，可能有助于进一步提升全国范围内的互联网普及率。伴随2016年末的货币化改革，数字化以惊人的速度渗透至全国，2019年接近50%。