Morocco had the highest internet penetration rate in Africa in 2011, with 41.3% of the population having access to the internet. Nigeria had the largest number of internet users (44 million) and Egypt had the second-largest (20 million). South Africa, Algeria, and Sudan also had significant numbers of internet users.
As of 2011, the African country with the highest internet penetration rate (IPR) – the percentage of a country’s population that has access to the internet – was Morocco, with 41.3% of the population, or about 13.2 million people, who have access to the Internet. Nigeria had the largest number of Internet users, around 44 million, and a DPI of 28.3%. Internet users in Nigeria accounted for approximately 37% of all Internet users in Africa. Egypt was second in terms of Internet users, with around 20 million, and had an DPI of around 24.5%. Egyptian Internet users account for about 16.9 percent of the total for Africa.
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Other countries in Africa that had many Internet users in 2011 include South Africa, with 6.8 million; Algeria, with about 4.7 million; and Sudan, with about 4.2 million. Algeria and South Africa had almost 14% intellectual property rights, and Sudan had 9.3%.
About 65% of African Internet users in 2011 were from Nigeria, Egypt or Morocco. Egypt had more Facebook users than Morocco and Nigeria combined: about 9.4 million users.
In 2007, less than 1% of Africans had broadband internet access.
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