In 2021, 28 million people in Brazil were not using the internet, says IBGE

In 2021, 28.2 million people in Brazil were not using the Internetto me IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics). it represents 15.3% of the population is above 10 years of age.

As a result, the Internet was used by 84.7% of Brazil’s population over 10 years old, or 155.7 million people.

Due to the pandemic, the institute did not conduct this survey in 2020. In 2019, 20.5% of Brazil’s population over 10 years old said they had not used the InternetWhich was equivalent to 36.9 million people.

The data is part of the National Continuing Household Sample Survey (Pnad C) conducted in the fourth quarter of 2021 and released on Friday (16) by the International Institute of Universities and Colleges (IBGE). The survey also found that:

The main reason for not using the internet is not knowing how to use it. technology;
Voice and video calls have become the main goal (94.9%) in internet use;
The The age group between 25 and 29 years old is the group that uses the Internet the most (94.5%);
for the first time, More than half (57.5%) of the population aged 60 and over use the Internet;
Television has overtaken the computer as the second most used equipment To access the Internet, behind the cell phone only;
28.7 million people did not have a mobile phone in 2021 (15.6% of the population aged 10 years and over);
98.2% of private school students used the Internet in 2021; Among public school students, the rate drops to 87%.;
Midwest and Southeast regions lead internet use; North and Northeast continue at the lowest rates;
2.2% of households do not have a digital TV signal An adapter, satellite dish, or pay-TV service.

To collect data, IBGE considered whether the service was used at least sometime in the 90-day period prior to the date of the home interview. According to the institute, Internet use in Brazil has been increasing since 2016, when the rate was 66.1%.

Reasons not to use the Internet

The main reasons for not having access to the Internet among the 28.2 million people who did not use the service in Brazil in 2021 were not knowing how to use it and not caring. For 20.1%, the service or equipment to access the Internet was too expensive.

Among the people who did not use the Internet, 5.3% said the service is not available in their area. This indicator was 3.5% in urban areas and 9.9% in rural areas.

Internet use purposes

Pnad Contínua combines four main purposes of Internet access and highlights that the use of voice calls and video calls is becoming more and more popular:

Chat via voice calls and video calls: 95.7% (91.4%, in 2019);
Send or receive text, voice and photo messages: 94.9% (95.8%, in 2019);
Watch videos, including shows, series and movies: 89.1% (88.9% in 2019);
Send or receive email: 62% (62% in 2019).

Research highlights that The 25-29 age group was the most used internet group in 2021 And that there was faster growth among the older age groups. For the first time, more than half of the elderly have received service.

According to IBGE, this may be due to “the development in the facilities for the use and diffusion of this technology in the daily life of society”.

The survey also indicates that in 2021, the Internet was used by 85.6% of women and 83.7% of men.

Among the students, 90.3% used the service, which is an increase of 2.1 percentage points compared to 2019. As explained by the International Institute for Statistics and Information, The group is heterogeneous and there are differences in Internet access according to the school system:

In the public network, 87% of students used the Internet in 2021;
In the private network, 98.2% of students used the Internet in 2021.

The largest difference in absolute terms, 22.9 percentage points, is in the North, where 73.2% of public school students used the Internet in 2021, compared to 96.1% of private school students.

In the Southeast region, there is the smallest difference, 6.8 percentage points: 92.2% of students in the public network used the Internet in 2021, versus 99% of students in the private network.

The device used to access the Internet

Mobile phones have been the main device used by the population over 10 years of age to access the Internet. The device followed by the TV that bypassed the computer:

cell: 98.8% (98.6% in 2019);
Television: 45.1% (32.2% in 2019);
the computer: 41.9% (46.2% in 2019);
plank: 9.3% (10.9% in 2019).

Among the students, the cell phone is also the most used (97.9%), but the computer (51.7%) is still ahead of the TV (49.4%).

There are also differences in the type of device used according to Education Network. Among the private network students, 80.4% used the Internet via a computer. Among those in the public network, the proportion is 38.3%..

IBGE also recorded that a file The Internet was used in 90% of the country’s households in 2021An increase of 6 percentage points compared to 2019. The index was 92.3% in urban and 74.7% in rural.

Average real per capita income in households with the Internet was almost double that of those without the Internet:

Internet-enabled households: 1480 BRL
Households without internet: 795 BRL

The Fixed broadband was used in 83.5% of households, and for the first time it exceeded mobile broadband (3G and 4G), which was used by 79.2%. Dial-up Internet use has continued to decline since 2016 and was present in 0.1% of households in 2021.