For the 86-country sample as a whole there is also a significant relationship between income inequality and the Web Index scores. When countries are broken down into income groups, inequality seems to be a more important factor in high income countries, whereas absolute poverty levels seem to be more significant in developing countries. The existence of the two dimensions together — high absolute poverty and high inequality — seems to produce a compounded negative effect on the ability to benefit from technology, which in turn could exacerbate inequality by leaving poorer countries and poorer people further behind. (In measuring inequality, we used the latest available World Bank “Gini Coefficient” data — a widely-used statistical measure of income inequality in countries).