Global statistics showed that the number of social media users in the Kuwaiti market reached 4.25 million this year out of 4.26 million Internet users, a growth of 0.8% over the year 2020, which constitutes 98.8% of the country’s population of approximately 4.3 million people, reports Al-Rai daily.
The numbers show the great interest that citizens and residents of the country, alike, pay to the Internet and social media, which has increased its presence and importance as a result of the strict restrictions imposed by the concerned authorities to combat the “Corona” virus during the last period, when everyone searched for various means of entertainment in the social media which is in the forefront to pass the time, especially during times of the partial and comprehensive ban that Kuwait has witnessed for a relatively long period.
The statistics revealed that the number of mobile phones registered in Kuwait was to 6.94 million devices, equivalent to 161.4 percent of the population, a decrease of 5.8 percent (424,000) from 2020.
The statistics issued by ‘dataportal’ indicated that the number of Internet users in the local market increased by 0.8 percent, by 35,000 on an annual basis, while the number of social media users increased by 2.4 percent, by 99 thousand, at the beginning of this year. Social communication via phones reached 99.6 percent.
