South African internet habits over the past two years

[Daniel Puchert]

What South Africans really do on the Internet

Internet penetration in South Africa has increased substantially over the past three years, according to the Market Research Foundation's MAPS data overview for 2021 to 2023.

Its data shows that the portion of South Africa's population accessing the Internet grew from 56% in the first quarter of 2021 to 78% in the fourth quarter of 2023, with spending most of their time browsing the web or social media.

 

[saor]

What South Africans really do on the Internet

Internet penetration

This guy.

 

[Sarg3_ZN]

This guy.

What did you expect after all the recent kissing?

 

[KleinBoontjie]

What happened Q1 '22 with that dip in gaming? WFH that ended?

 

[r00igev@@r]

Porn

 

[UB40]

These new Staff Writers are on a roll lately. Love it.

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

These new Staff Writers are on a roll lately. Love it.

Rolling - free fall - downhill

 

[Skerminkel]

Internet grew from 56% in the first quarter of 2021 to 78% in the fourth quarter of 2023, ...

How on earth? I would seriously doubt my own research if I saw such results. What caused the jump? There were no significant changes in technology, cost or regulations. No explanation given?

 

[Randomwasavailable]

This guy.

Exactly:
"penetration in South Africa has increased substantially"

 

[Randomwasavailable]

What did you expect after all the recent kissing?

I'd expect streaming on the list. Perhaps that's now an old folks thing.

 

[Swa]

How on earth? I would seriously doubt my own research if I saw such results. What caused the jump? There were no significant changes in technology, cost or regulations. No explanation given?

Sounds like its more the questionnaire and methodology that's changed.

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

Exactly:
"penetration in South Africa has increased substantially"

And resulted in a minor population boom.

 

[Skerminkel]

Sounds like its more the questionnaire and methodology that's changed.

Exactly. I suspect many respondents don't realise that Whatsapp is "on the internet", etc.

 

[garyc]

I wonder what online games they are playing, or is this just a euphemism?