The National Administrative Department of Statistics (Dane), in agreement with the Ministry of ICT, presented the results of the Survey of Information Technology and Communications in Homes 2021 (ENTIC Homes).
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According to the report, the total proportion of Colombian households with internet connection last year was 61.6%, which translates into an increase of 3.5 percentage points with respect to the total registered in 2020 (58.1%). However, there would still be 38.4% of households without connection.
Now, regarding the disaggregation, the proportion of households with internet connection in the capitals was 70.2%, reporting an increase of 3 percentage points compared to 2020 (67.2%). For its part, The percentage of households with internet in populated and dispersed rural centers went from 28.2% in 2020 to 32.5% in 2021, that is, there was an increase of 4.3 percentage points.
At the department level, Bogotá Distrito Capital, with 81.1% of its homes with internet connection, ranked first, followed by Santander (74.8%), Valle del Cauca (72.3%), Risaralda (72.0%), Meta (69.8%), Casanare (68.1%), Quindío (67.7%), Caldas (67.0%) and Antioquia (63.3%), were above the national average. It should be noted that 18 of the 32 departments are above average.
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Juan Daniel Oviedo, director of Dane, explained that the survey shows significant progress in terms of connectivity in the country.
“In the first place, we have Bogotá Distrito Capital, which went from having 76.7% of its homes connected to the Internet in 2020 to 81.1%. In second place we have the department of Santander, which in 2021 registered 78.78% of households with internet, while in 2020 this same department was in eighth position with 61.0% of its households with internet. Another important leap was made by the department of Magdalena, which went from having 37.8% of its households with internet access in 2020 to 53.1% of households in 2021”, Oviedo noted.
CONNECTION TYPES
Regarding the type of connection used by Colombian households, the ENTIC 2021 survey specified that in the national total, the fixed internet was present in 78.8% of the houses, while the mobile represented 43.3%, and the fixed-mobile internet was 22.0%.
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On the headend side, there was a slight decrease in the fixed internet connection, since it went from 85.6% in 2020 to 83.2% last year. On the other hand, the mobile internet connection in 2021 registered an increase of 4 percentage points, since it went from 36.6% of the proportion of households in 2020 to 40.7%.
In populated and dispersed rural centers, it was shown that mobile connectivity continues to be the most used, since the proportion stood at 62.1% in 2021. It should be remembered that the percentage of households with a mobile connection in 2020 was 60.9%. As for fixed internet connectivity, this varied a bit since it went from having an adoption rate of 46.9% in 2020 to 46.3% in 2021.
PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS WITH A COMPUTER
According to the Dane ENTIC survey, in 2021 the percentage of households that had a desktop, laptop or tablet computer was 37.9% at the national level.
In the headers a higher proportion was presented with 46.3%while in populated and scattered rural centers the proportion was 9.7%.
By type of device, laptop ownership prevails both nationally (27.5%) and in townships (33.7%) and in populated and dispersed rural centers (6.8%) over desktop computers and the tablet.
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