{"id":178891,"date":"2025-08-27T05:08:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T05:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/178891\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T05:08:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T05:08:16","slug":"india-among-the-list-rank-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/178891\/","title":{"rendered":"India among the list\u2014rank revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Top 10 countries with the highest internet users in 2025: <\/strong>The world is more connected than ever, with the internet serving as a crucial pillar of modern information in today\u2019s fast-paced digital era.<\/p>\n<p>Accounting for 67.9 per cent of the global population, there are 5.56 billion internet users worldwide as of February, according to Statista.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"lazyloading\" decoding=\"async\" data-lazy-type=\"lazyloading-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/track_1x1.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/track_1x1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" style=\"display:none;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Of the total internet users, 5.24 billion, or 63.9 per cent of the global population, were social media users.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below this ad<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/trending\/top-10-listing\/imd-smart-city-index-global-top-10-in-2025-indian-cities-ranked-10202253\/\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">China boasts the highest number of internet users globally<\/a>, with 1.11 billion individuals connected, according to Statista.<\/p>\n<p>The country has more than triple the third-ranked United States, which has about 322 million internet users in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite having the most extensive online population, China\u2019s online penetration rate was still relatively low at 78 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the global average internet penetration rate is approximately 67.9 per cent as of February 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below this ad<\/p>\n<p>India has the second-largest digital population(by internet users) in the world:<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/trending\/top-10-listing\/top-10-countries-with-the-fastest-mobile-internet-in-2025-india-rank-10172744\/\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">India now has the world\u2019s second-largest online population<\/a>, with the DataReportal Digital 2025 report highlighting that the number of internet users in India has increased\u00a0by\u00a049 million, i.e. by 6.5 per cent between January 2024 and January 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">As of February 2025, India has over 806 million internet users, as noted by Statista, thereby placing it just behind China (1.11 billion) and well ahead of the United States (322 million).<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">However, India lags behind the internet penetration rate, with over 55 per cent remaining lower than the U.S. and China.<\/p>\n<p>Top 10 largest digital populations (by internet users) in the world, as of February 2025:<\/p>\n<p>Expand<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/profile\/author\/cherry-gupta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1716476495147.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Cherry Gupta\" decoding=\"async\"   aria-label=\"article\"\/><br \/>\n                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cherrygupt\"><br \/>\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/wp-content\/themes\/indianexpress\/images\/x-story.svg\" height=\"20\" width=\"20\" alt=\"twitter\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"author-bio\"> Cherry Gupta is an Assistant Manager \u2013 Content at The Indian Express. 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She also produces SEO-driven articles and collaborates with the Lifestyle team to conduct interviews with notable artists and write workplace culture features.                        <a class=\"more-abt-author\" href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/profile\/author\/cherry-gupta\/\" rel=\"noamphtml noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230; Read More <\/a>\n                <\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top 10 countries with the highest internet users in 2025: The world is more connected than ever, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":178892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[101223,712,101224,101225,158,101222,101221,67,132,68,93453,93454],"class_list":{"0":"post-178891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-how-many-internet-users-in-the-world-2025","9":"tag-internet","10":"tag-internet-users-in-india-2025","11":"tag-mobile-data-consumption-by-country","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-top-10-countries-with-highest-internet-speed","14":"tag-top-10-countries-with-the-highest-number-of-internet-users","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-which-country-has-the-highest-percentage-of-internet-users","19":"tag-world-internet-users"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115099002751067457","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}