Description
Data
The map uses 2011 data on Internet users and total population datasets that were obtained from the World Bank. The World Bank has tracked the number of Internet users and Internet connections per country since the 1990s as part of its Worldwide Governance Indicators project.
The data are visualized with a hexagon-shaped cartogram in which the size of each country is drawn based on its population of Internet users. Each hexagon accounts for about one third of a million Internet users. Countries with fewer than that number have been removed from the map. The shading of each country reflects its Internet penetration rate: darker shades indicate higher levels of Internet usage in the population.