📋 Tender Overview
In the July-August-September quarter of 2023, 78.7% of the country's population aged 6 and over uses the Internet, increasing by 4.1 percentage points more than in the same quarter of the previous year (74.6%) and compared to the same quarter of 2019 (60.2%), it grew by 18.5 percentage points. This was announced by the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI), in the technical report Statistics of Information and Communication Technologies in Households, prepared with the results of the National Household Survey (ENAHO).
By area of residence, in Metropolitan Lima, the Internet user population reached 89.7%, followed by the rest of the urban area (81.6%) and in the rural area (52.8%).
However, the largest increases occurred in rural areas with 9.6 percentage points (from 43.2% to 52.8%), followed by Metropolitan Lima with 2.9 percentage points (from 86.8% to 89.7%) and 2.6 percentage points in the rest of the urban area (from 79.0% to 81.6%).
On the other hand, the INEI reported that 80.3% of men and 77.1% of women accessed the Internet service, with a difference of 3.2 percentage points in favor of men.
Internet access is led by the population of 19 to 24 years of age
96.5% of the population aged 19 to 24 are the largest internet users, a figure up 1.5 percentage points compared to the third quarter of 2022. This was followed by the 25-40 age group (91.7%) and the 12-18 age group (90.8%), with increases of 4.2 and 2.2 percentage points, respectively; when compared to the same quarter of the previous year.
It should be noted that the population aged 60 and over was the segment that showed the greatest increase in Internet access with 7.3 percentage points (from 36.8% to 44.1%) and by 6.2 percentage points in the population aged 41 to 59 (from 70.9% to 77.1%).
57.0% of the country's households have an Internet connection
In the quarter under review, 57.0% of the country's households have an Internet connection, a figure 1.7 percentage points lower than in the same quarter of the previous year (58.7%).
The largest reductions occurred in the rest of the urban area with 3.5 percentage points (from 62.0% to 58.5%). This was followed by rural areas by 1.4 percentage points (from 21.3% to 19.9%) and in Metropolitan Lima by 0.4 percentage points (from 78.3% to 77.9%).
90.9% of the population that uses the Internet does so through a cell phone
In the third quarter of 2023, 90.9% of the population aged 6 and over who use the Internet do so through a cell phone (with and without a data plan), a figure 1.8 percentage points higher than in the same quarter of 2022 (89.1%).
By area of residence, 94.5% of those who use this means reside in Metropolitan Lima, 89.8% in rural areas and 88.3% in the rest of urban areas. Compared to the same quarter of 2022, these results showed advances in Metropolitan Lima and rural areas of 3.9 and 1.3 percentage points, respectively. Meanwhile, in the rest of the urban area there were no significant changes, as they remained at the same levels.
In 94.6% of the country's households, there is at least one member with a cell phone
During the quarter under analysis, 94.6% of the country's households have at least one member with a cell phone, a figure that did not show significant variation compared to the same quarter of 2022 (94.7%); while, when compared to the same quarter of 2019 (92.1%), it increased by 2.5 percentage points.
By area of residence, the highest coverage was in the rest of the urban area at 97.2%, which when compared to the same quarter of 2022 did not show significant changes (97.0%). In Metropolitan Lima, household access to cell phones was 96.3%, followed by rural areas with 86.1%.
According to the educational level of the head of household, 99.0% and 98.8% of those with non-university and higher university education had access to mobile telephony, respectively. With secondary education it reached 97.7% and with primary education or lower educational level 86.4%.
