San Jose, Costa Rica.- 54.4% of the inhabitants of Latin America and the Caribbean used the Internet in 2015, 20 percentage points more than in 2010, which shows the important progress made in the region in the last five years in terms of access to the service and its affordability, according to the report The State of Broadband in Latin America and the Caribbean 2016 (in Spanish), released by ECLAC.
The publication was officially presented during the second meeting of the Conference on Science, Innovation and Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which was held on September 12-13, in San Jose, Costa Rica.
The percentage of Internet users as a proportion of the total population in Latin America and the Caribbean grew 10.6% per year between 2000 and 2015, which reduced the gap with countries belonging to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD): this difference shrank to 25.2 percentage points in 2015 from 37.2 percentage points in 2010.