Eighty-six percent of Moroccan internet users or 22.56 million people go online daily, 11 percent weekly, and 2 percent monthly, according to Hootsuite and We Are Social's 2018 digital report, published by MoroccoWorldNews. It said that 17 million people, or 47 percent of the population, are active on social media, and 16 million of them use social media on their mobile phones.
The report's statistics apparently did not include Western Sahara, where the number of internet users increased by 364 percent or 102,000 users, The Next Web quoted the report as saying.
There are 43.76 million mobile subscriptions in Morocco, which had an estimated population of 36.41 million people in 2018. The report shows an annual digital growth of 1.2 percent between January 2018 and January 2019. Mobile phone usage rose by 5.7 percent over that period while the number of active users of social networks grew by 1 million, or 6.3 percent.
Ninety-six percent of the total adult population have a phone and 57 percent have a smartphone. By contrast, only 25 percent of adults use a computer, 14 percent use a tablet, 87 percent have a television, and 7 percent have a streaming device.
The average internet speed for mobile is 20.77 Mbps compared with 13.87 Mbps for cable. Both speeds increased by more than 26 percent in 2018 compared with a year earlier, according to the report.
Source: https://www.telecompaper.com/news/moroccan-internet-penetration-reached-86-in-2018--1279617
