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<\/a><\/div>\nConnectivity and the technology that connects us continues to grow and expand across the globe. As countries with advanced economies slowly inch toward 100% usage of smartphones and the Internet, developing countries have been closing the gap.<\/p>\n
SEE ALSO: Emerging and Developing Nations Want Internet Freedom<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n As of 2015, about 54% of adults in 21 countries with developing economies are using the Internet, up from 45% in 2013, according to a report from the Pew Research Center<\/a>. An even larger increase has been the use of smartphones in developing economies, jumping from 21% in 2013 to 37% in 2015. In countries with advanced economies, about 87% of adults use the Internet and 68% own a smartphone. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n More about Connectivity<\/a>, Economy<\/a>, World<\/a>, Tech<\/a>, and Mobile<\/a> Connectivity and the technology that connects us continues to grow and expand across the globe. As countries with advanced economies slowly inch toward 100% usage of smartphones and the Internet, developing countries have been closing the gap. SEE ALSO: Emerging … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2800,1536,803,725,1112],"class_list":["post-3591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-connectivity","tag-economy","tag-mobile","tag-tech","tag-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"