'Internet use reaches 5 billion worldwide' in 2020

Created by gwern on 2010-10-23; known on 2021-01-01; judged wrong by PseudonymousUser on 2021-01-03.

• gwern estimated 70% on 2010-10-23
• gwern said “http://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2020-2029.htm#internet-2020” on 2010-10-23
• anonym estimated 80% on 2010-11-27
• Grognor estimated 91% and said “I almost cannot see that not happening” on 2011-12-06
• Grognor said “really means BY the end of 2020, right?” on 2011-12-06
• gwern said “link shifted: http://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2020.htm#internet-2020 thinking back, I think I was interpreting it as ‘by’” on 2011-12-06
• themusicgod1 estimated 66% on 2016-10-07
• PseudonymousUser estimated 90% and said “http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/” on 2016-11-15
• two2thehead estimated 70% and said “Let’s play it safe.” on 2016-11-15
• pranomostro said “@bobpage: Unfortunately, the page stopped updating after 2016. Here is a more up-to-date source: https://internetworldstats.com/stats.htm” on 2019-01-09
• pranomostro estimated 80% on 2019-01-09
• pranomostro estimated 66% on 2019-01-09
• pranomostro said “Cisco predicts 4.711 billion users by 2022: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/service-provider/visual-networking-index-vni/white-paper-c11-741490.pdf” on 2019-01-09
• pranomostro estimated 55% on 2019-01-09
• Baeboo estimated 50% on 2019-01-10
• PseudonymousUser said ““Almost 4.66 billion people were active internet users as of October 2020, encompassing 59 percent of the global population”” on 2021-01-03
• PseudonymousUser   judged this prediction wrong on 2021-01-03.