If you're reading this, let me start by saying, you're very special.
One of the (many) reasons you're very special is because the United Nations Broadband Commission's most recent findings about the global state of Internet connectivity, released Monday. Though we may fancy ourselves to be denizens of a borderless interconnected world, the truth is that more than "half the world's population — some 57%, or more than 4 billion people — still do not use the Internet regularly or actively," Reuters noted. (And not for lack of trying.)
This stat has some very interesting tidbits attached to it:
Only 5% of the world's 7,100 languages are represented on the Internet.
In the developing world, 25% fewer women have Internet access than men — that number goes to 50% in parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
Roughly 300 million people gained Internet access in the past year.
90% of the population of the world's poorest 48 countries remain offline.
Back in June, a Pew study showed that 15% of Americans don't use the Internet. Compare that to 2000, when a full 48% of Americans told Pew they did not use the Internet.