This chart shows historical Number of Telephone subscriptions and Internet Connections per 100 people, World, 1975 to Present.
Current World Internet users : 24.69 per 100 inhabitants
Current World Fixed telephone lines : 18.02 per 100 inhabitants
Current World Mobile cellular telephone subscriptions : 63.56 per 100 inhabitants
Mobile cellular has been the most rapidly adopted technology in history. Today it is the most popular and widespread personal technology on the planet, with an estimated 4.6 billion subscriptions globally by the end of 2009, and almost every country now has more mobile than fixed telephone subscribers.