Technology
What percentage of the world's population uses a smartphone?
86%
Background
Around 86 percent of all people worldwide use a smartphone. That works out to about 6.9 billion out of 8 billion. In rich countries the rate is close to 100 percent. In 2007, when the iPhone launched, almost nobody had a smartphone. Today more people own a phone than have access to clean toilets.
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