More than half of the world's Internet users have Facebook


More than half of the world's Internet users have Facebook



Mobile users increase thanks to the expansion of smartphones



   Last July, the compiler of US statistics Internet Live Stats encrypted the total number of Internet users in 3.425 million users who surf the network of networks usually.

This week, Facebook has rendered accounts to its investors on Wall Street and has left large numbers in the number of users who have profile in the most famous social network today. A total of 1,790 million users access the Mark Zuckeberg platform monthly, 16% more than in the third quarter of 2015.

A simple rule of three mathematics approves the theories of experts who since the beginning of the year indicated that more than half of Internet users access at least once a month to Facebook. With the official results, 52.3% of the world's Internet users have registered in the social network.

In the last decade, the number of Internet users has gone from touching the 2,000 million Internet users to almost double the figure, due to the expansion of smart mobile devices.

Although the smartphone market is expected to continue growing, it will do so at a slower pace than in previous years, according to the Gartner consultancy. The total sales of mobile phones will fall by 1.6% in 2016. Experts expect to reach the 1.5 billion mobile phones sold.

For its part, the tablets are also cut their expansion. The manufacturers placed just 43 million units in the quarter, 14.7% less than a year earlier.

Objective Internet.org

Facebook has to cover 48% of Internet users who are unaware of the existence of the social network and fulfill its mission to "achieve a connected world".

Mark Zuckerberg and his team of engineers are working to promote free connectivity with his drone Aquila and the failed launch of his satellite in Spaceon Elon Musk to deploy Internet.org worldwide.

According to the data of the last quarter, the audience of the personal project of Zuckerberg reached 40 million people, a 0.5% of the world population, according to Facebook. The social network also ensures that Internet.org helped grow the number of users of the platform by 4.6%.

After its launch in 2014, Internet.org has gone from 3 million users to 40 million today. A figure that represents a growth from 166% since its birth, although it still encounters political barriers in large markets such as India.

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