According to the Internacional Telecommunications Union (ITU), the Internet is a widely used media all over the World.  The industrialized countries are well ahead, but most developing countries are narrowing the gap.  

Surprisingly, the Republic of Korea (South Korea) takes the first place in users per capita.  Followed by the Sweden, Australia, United States, Singapore, Denmark, Netherlands, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Finland and United Kingdom (in that order). 

Among Latin American countries, Chile, Costa Rica and Puerto Rico (in that order) have the most users per capita (about half the United Kingdom’s average), well ahead of the next ranking countries in that region:  Uruguay, Argentina and Perú.

Not surprisingly, countries at the bottom of this list are among the most repressive and undemocratic in the World.  Cuba is at the bottom of the Latinamerican list, behind Haiti, Nicaragua and Paraguay.  Cuba ranks below 15 African countries, where most of the bottom ranked countries are.  Others at the very bottom are North Korea, Myanmar, Laos, Tayikistan, Turkmenistan, Albania and Yemen.  Russia and Ukrania are among the last of the industrialized countries.

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