Figure of the day:
59%
smartphone users in the world.
Analytical company Pew Research Center has published statistics regarding the popularity of smartphones in the world in General and individual countries in particular.
As it turned out, 59% of surveyed adults in the world are smartphone owners, 31% use simple mobile phones, and 8% neither one nor the other.
The country with the highest penetration of smartphones was the South Korea — 94% of adults use smartphones and 6% by phone. In second place is Israel with a smartphone penetration is 83%, third is Australia with 82 percent. USA is in eighth place with 77%, and Russia, along with Japan share twentieth and twenty-first place with 59%.
According to experts, the smartphone penetration can be considered as a good indicator of the quality of access and the level of coverage of Internet in the country.