The ITU puts internet use across its Africa region at just 36% in 2025, the lowest of any world region, which leaves nearly two in three people there offline. By one September 2026 estimate, about 906 million Africans live within reach of a mobile broadband signal but still don't use the internet. A few countries are well ahead of the rest, though: these are the 15 with the highest share of their population online, using DataReportal's latest country figures.
Pictured: the launch of Morocco’s Digital Morocco 2030 strategy, #1 with 92.2% of people online.
| Rank | Country | Region | Internet penetration | Internet users |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Morocco | North Africa | 92.2% | 35.5M |
| 2 | Libya | North Africa | 88.5% | 6.62M |
| 3 | Seychelles | East Africa | 87.4% | ~0.11M |
| 4 | Tunisia | North Africa | 84.3% | 10.4M |
| 5 | Egypt | North Africa | 81.9% | 96.3M |
| 6 | Botswana | Southern Africa | 81.4% | ~2.1M |
| 7 | South Africa | Southern Africa | 79.6% | 51.7M |
| 8 | Mauritius | East Africa | 79.5% | ~1.0M |
| 9 | Algeria | North Africa | 76.9% | 36.2M |
| 10 | Ghana | West Africa | 74.6% | 26.3M |
| 11 | Cabo Verde | West Africa | 73.5% | 0.39M |
| 12 | Gabon | Central Africa | 71.9% | 1.84M |
| 13 | Djibouti | East Africa | 65.0% | ~0.76M |
| 14 | Namibia | Southern Africa | 64.4% | ~1.9M |
| 15 | São Tomé and Príncipe | Central Africa | 61.5% | ~0.14M |
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Some 35.5 million Moroccans were online by late 2025, giving the kingdom the highest internet penetration on the continent. Mobile does the heavy lifting: the country counts close to 57 million mobile connections, far more than its population, and with the phased rollout of 5G its average mobile download speed (about 60 Mbps) has edged past fixed broadband (about 55 Mbps).[1][5]
Despite more than a decade of political division and conflict, about 6.6 million Libyans use the internet, nearly nine in ten people. The country also sat at the top of Africa in the ITU's 2024 ICT Development Index, alongside Morocco and Seychelles.[2][6]
The Indian Ocean archipelago has only about 130,000 people, but almost nine in ten of them are online, the highest rate of any country outside North Africa. It joined Libya and Morocco at the head of Africa's field in the ITU's 2024 ICT Development Index.[2][6]
About 10.4 million Tunisians use the internet, and 7.8 million are active on social media. The government has launched a 192-project plan meant to put all public services online by 2030.[1][7]
Egypt's online population of about 96 million is easily the biggest in this top 15, and nearly twice South Africa's. Mobile internet subscriptions reached 92.6 million in December 2025, while fixed broadband passed 12.9 million subscriptions in April 2026.[2][8]
Southern Africa's most connected country has about 2.1 million internet users. DataReportal counted roughly 1.48 million at the start of 2022, so the online population has grown by about two-fifths in a few years.[2][9]
Africa's most developed digital economy had 51.7 million internet users by October 2025, up from 50.8 million at the start of that year. That makes it the continent's second-largest online population in this ranking, behind Egypt.[1]
About four in five Mauritians are online. Estimates for small island states vary by method: the Internet Society's Pulse puts the figure nearer 73%. From 2026, Mauritius also applies a 15% VAT to foreign digital services.[2][10]
Africa's largest country by area has about 36.2 million internet users. Algeria's telecom regulator ARPCE counted 59.1 million internet subscriptions in mid-2025, almost 89% of them mobile.[2][11]
Ghana leads West Africa and grew fastest among this top 10. DataReportal's 2026 figures show 26.3 million users (74.6%), up from 24.3 million (69.9%) a year earlier, a jump of nearly five percentage points.[1][12]