The data displays the internet penetration rate in China until December 2017. As of December 2017, about 55.8% of the Chinese population had used the internet. The penetration rate denotes the share of the population that has access to a certain communication medium.
Internet penetration in China – additional informationAccording to the graph at hand, the share of internet users in China’s total population had reached nearly 48% as of end 2014. For comparison, the worldwide average internet penetration rate had resided at about 42% as of January 2015.
