Figure 3.16: Internet use in Middle and South America, December 2011. The numbers on the map indicate the number of Internet users in each country; percents indicate the percentage of the country’s population that uses the Internet. By December 2011, more than 235 million people (39.5 percent of the population) in Middle and South America were using the Internet; the number of users had risen slightly more than 1200 percent since 2000. Argentina has the highest percentage of users (67.0 percent) in South America; St. Lucia (88.5 percent) the highest in the Caribbean; and Costa Rica (43.7 percent) the highest in Middle America.

[Sources consulted: Data from Internet World Stats: “Internet Users in the World: Distribution by World Regions—2012 Q2,” at http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm; “Latin American Internet Usage Statistics,” at http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats10.htm; “Internet Usage and Population in the Caribbean,” at http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats11.htm]