Digital 2024: Cocos (Keeling) Island
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This page contains an overview of essential headlines for digital adoption and use in Cocos (Keeling) Island in 2024.
If you want to check whether this is our most up-to-date report for Cocos, or if you’re looking for data on digital trends and behaviours in Cocos for previous years, you can find DataReportal’s full collection of reports on Cocos (Keeling) Island by clicking here.
You’ll also find the complete Digital 2024 report for Cocos (Keeling) Island in the “overview graphic” section below, but we’ll start by taking a look at the essential headline numbers for Cocos this year.
Just before that, we’d like to thank We Are Social and Meltwater for making the 2024 Global Digital Reports series possible.
OK, let’s get into the data…
The state of digital in Cocos (Keeling) Island in 2024
Here are DataReportal’s essential headlines for digital adoption and use in Cocos (Keeling) Island in early 2024:
There were 451 internet users in Cocos (Keeling) Island at the start of 2024, when internet penetration stood at 76.1 percent.
Cocos was home to 200 social media users in January 2024, equating to 33.7 percent of the total population.
A total of 375 cellular mobile connections were active in Cocos in early 2024, with this figure equivalent to 63.2 percent of the total population.
These headline stats offer a great overview of the “state of digital” in Cocos, but in order to make sense of how digital trends and behaviours are evolving, we need to dig deeper into the data.
Let’s take a closer look at what the latest numbers tell us, starting with some valuable context relating to the population of Cocos.
Population of Cocos (Keeling) Island in 2024
The population of Cocos stood at 593 in January 2024.
Data shows that Cocos’s population remained unchanged between early 2023 and the start of 2024.
49.2 percent of Cocos’s population is female, while 50.8 percent of the population is male.
Note: gender data are currently only available for “female” and “male”.
Cocos (Keeling) Island’s population by age
The median age of Cocos’s population is 40.0.
Internet use in Cocos (Keeling) Island in 2024
There were 451 internet users in Cocos in January 2024.
Cocos’s internet penetration rate stood at 76.1 percent of the total population at the start of 2024.
Kepios analysis indicates that internet users in Cocos remained unchanged between January 2023 and January 2024.
For perspective, these user figures reveal that 142 people in Cocos did not use the internet at the start of 2024, suggesting that 23.9 percent of the population remained offline at the beginning of the year.
However, complexities associated with the collection and analysis of internet user data mean that it can often take several months before research is ready for publication. As a result, the latest published figures for internet use invariably under-represent reality, and actual adoption and growth may be higher than the figures shown here suggest. Please see our comprehensive notes on data for further details.
Dig deeper: for the latest insights into internet adoption and use around the world, follow our regular Global Statshot reports.
Social media statistics for Cocos (Keeling) Island in 2024
DataReportal’s figures show that there were 200 active social media user identities in Cocos (Keeling) Island in January 2024.
Note: over the past year, we’ve made some important changes to how we calculate social media user numbers, and the data sources that we use to inform these calculations have also made significant and wide-ranging revisions to their published figures during that period.
As a result, our latest figure for social media use might appear to be quite different to the values that we published in previous years.
Because of this, we advise caution when comparing the social media user values published in this year’s reports with those published in previous years, especially because changes in reported values may be the result of “corrections” in the source data, as well as changes in actual user behaviour.
For clarity, Kepios analysis shows that social media users in Cocos (Keeling) Island remained unchanged between early 2023 and the beginning of 2024.
The number of social media users in Cocos at the start of 2024 was equivalent to 33.7 percent of the total population, but it’s important to stress that social media users may not represent unique individuals (see our detailed notes on data to learn why).
More broadly, 44.3 percent of Cocos’s total internet user base (regardless of age) used at least one social media platform in January 2024.
At that time, 50.0 percent of Cocos’s social media users were female, while 50.0 percent were male.
Note: gender data are currently only available for “female” and “male”.
Mobile connections in Cocos (Keeling) Island in 2024
Data from GSMA Intelligence shows that there were 375 cellular mobile connections in Cocos at the start of 2024.
However, note that many people around the world make use of more than one mobile connection – for example, they might have one connection for personal use, and another one for work – so it’s not unusual for mobile connection figures to significantly exceed figures for total population.
GSMA Intelligence’s numbers indicate that mobile connections in Cocos were equivalent to 63.2 percent of the total population in January 2024.
The number of mobile connections in Cocos increased by 8 (+2.2 percent) between the start of 2023 and the start of 2024.
Additional resources
Just before we get to our overview graphic, here are some suggestions for further reading, which will provide additional context for our full set of Digital 2024 numbers for Cocos (Keeling) Island:
Read our complete Digital 2024 Global Overview Report to get a comprehensive overview of the “state of digital” around the world in 2024.
Click here to see all of the Global Digital Reports we’ve published on Cocos (Keeling) Island over the past decade.
Explore all of our reports on countries in Oceania by clicking here.
Visit our complete online reports library to find all of the (free!) reports in the Global Digital Reports series.
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