81% of the Brazilian population accessed the Internet in 2021, says survey
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The internet was accessed by 81% of the Brazilian population in 2021, according to the ICT Household survey. The survey is carried out annually by the Regional Center for Studies for the Development of the Information Society (Cetic.br) and found that:
- 1/3 of the poorest does not have access to the internet;
- Internet access in rural areas went from 53% to 73% ;
- 50% of Brazilians have a TV connected to the internet;
- Most connected age group is that of people between 16 and 24 years old;
- South, North and Midwest Regions have the highest rates of internet use in Brazil;
- 46% of users bought products and services through the Internet;
- 70% of users turned to the internet to seek information or public services.
The 2020 edition of the survey, published last year, also showed that 81% of the population had access to the internet in Brazil. But that survey used a different methodology to address distancing needs at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, including collecting data over the phone.
Now that the survey has been carried out in person again, the Cetic.br researchers explain that the ideal is to compare the new results with the 2019 edition, which also had this methodology. So, the group of internet users in the country grew 7 percentage points in two years.
“The comparison with the 2020 results must be done with caution. In 2020, both the questionnaire and the collection method had to be adapted for the health emergency”, explains Fábio Storino, coordinator of the Cetic.br research, to g1.