The Africascope 2020 study, published in March 2021, provides new insights into the evolution of Internet usage in sub-Saharan Africa and the use of social networks.
Overall, Internet usage continues to grow in almost all countries compared to 2019, as shown in the table below.
The most spectacular growth has been in the DRC and Burkina Faso.
INTERNET CONNECTION: TOTAL INTERNET USERS AS A PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATION AGED 15 AND OVER
2019 2020
SENEGAL 71 80
+9 pts
COTE D'IVOIRE 61 65
+4 pts
DRC 51 63
+12 pts
CAMEROON 53 62 +9 pts
GABON 62 62 =
MALI 53 64
+9 pts
BURKINA FASO 42 53 +11 pts
CONGO 51 52 =
Source: Africascope
Furthermore, Senegal remains well above other countries regardless of the indicator.
On the criterion of "% of Internet users connecting daily," Senegal, with 64% of daily Internet users, is far ahead of the DRC, Mali, and Côte d'Ivoire, which each have around 40% of daily Internet users.
Cameroon, one of the other major countries in Central Africa, has only 30% of internet users connecting every day.
DAILY INTERNET CONNECTION AS A PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATION AGED 15 AND OVER
2020
SENEGAL 64
IVORY COAST 39
DRC 42
CAMEROON 30
GABON 35
MALI 44
BURKINA FASO 30
CONGO 24
Source: Africascope
2020
A year ago, we shed new light on the situation with the "monthly traffic" indicator and observed the same disparities between countries and the same dominance of Senegal
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It should be noted that the Africascope study is conducted in the capitals of the eight countries surveyed and is therefore not representative of actual traffic across the entire country.