Bangladesh has ‘4th largest unconnected population’ of world

Bangladesh has the fourth largest 'unconnected' population in the world. Over 105 million Bangladeshis remain 'unconnected' from internet access, according to the Digital 2023 Global Overview Report by global data reference library Data Reportal. 

As of January 2023, Bangladesh has 105,138,000 people (roughly 61.1% of the total population) who do not have access to the internet across the country and ranks 4th in terms of unconnected populations worldwide.

However, at the start of 2022, there were 114.5 million people who did not use the internet (roughly 68.5% of the population). This indicates that more than 9 million new users have used the internet in the past year in the country.

According to the report, India has the highest number of people, with more than 730 million people not using the internet at the start of this year. China comes in second with around 375 million remaining away from the internet.