Digital 2025: Transnistria
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This page explores the adoption and use of connected devices and services in Transnistria in 2025.
If you want to know whether this is our most recent report on Transnistria, or if you’re looking for data on digital trends and behaviours in Transnistria for other years, you can find DataReportal’s full collection of (free!) reports on Transnistria by clicking here.
You’ll find a summary of key statistics in the “overview graphic” section towards the bottom of this page, but we’ll start this article by taking a look at the essential headline numbers for Transnistria this year.
Just before that, we’d like to say a big thank you to Meltwater and to We Are Social for their support of the Global Digital Reports series in 2025.
Now, let’s start exploring the data…
The “state of digital” in Transnistria in 2025
Here are DataReportal’s essential headlines for the adoption and use of connected devices and services in Transnistria in 2025:
There were 145 thousand individuals using the internet in Transnistria at the start of 2025, when online penetration stood at 31.1 percent.
Transnistria was home to 108 thousand social media user identities in January 2025, equating to 23.1 percent of the total population.
These headline stats offer a great overview of the “state of digital” in Transnistria at the start of 2025, but in order to make sense of how digital trends and behaviours have been evolving over time, we need to dig deeper into the data.
Let’s take a closer look at what the numbers tell us, starting with some valuable context relating to the population of Transnistria.
Population of Transnistria in 2025
The population of Transnistria stood at 466 thousand in January 2025.
Data shows that Transnistria’s population remained unchanged between early 2024 and the start of 2025.
Meanwhile, in early 2025, 69.9 percent of Transnistria’s population lived in urban centres, whereas 30.1 percent lived in rural areas.
Internet use in Transnistria in 2025
At the time of report production, the latest available data indicated that there were 145 thousand internet users in Transnistria in January 2025.
This means that Transnistria’s internet penetration rate stood at 31.1 percent of the total population at the start of the year.
Meanwhile, Kepios’s analysis indicates that the number of internet users in Transnistria remained unchanged between January 2024 and January 2025.
And for added perspective, Transnistria’s internet adoption rate (i.e. the percentage of the total population that uses the internet) remained unchanged during the same period.
But these user figures also suggest that 321 thousand people in Transnistria did not use the internet at the beginning of 2025, suggesting that 68.9 percent of the population remained “offline” at the start 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 may under-represent current realities, and actual rates for internet adoption and year-on-year growth may be higher than the figures shown here suggest.
Please see our comprehensive notes on data for further details.
Social media statistics for Transnistria in 2025
DataReportal’s figures show that there were 108 thousand active social media user identities in Transnistria in January 2025.
For perspective, this figure was equivalent to 23.1 percent of Transnistria’s total population at the start of 2025.
However, while our methodology strives to “de-duplicate” social media users across different social platforms — and, wherever possible, to remove accounts that do not represent individual human users — it’s important to stress that our social media user identities figures may not represent unique individuals (see our detailed notes on data to learn why).
Moreover, due to complexities associated with de-duplicating users across different social platforms, the methodology that we use to calculate social media user identities may sometimes only factor users of the social media platform that has the largest active audience in the respective country at the time of report production.
As a result, the figures that we publish for a country’s overall social media use may sometimes look very similar to the statistics that we publish for the most popular social media platform in that country.
Separately, please also note that the signals and sources that we rely on to inform these social media figures make regular changes and corrections to their data.
As a result, the values for social media use shown here might appear to be quite different to the numbers that we published in previous years.
Because of this, we advise significant caution when comparing the values for social media user identities published in this year’s reports with those published in previous years, especially because changes in our reported values may be the result of “corrections” in the source data, and not all trends will be the result of changes in actual user behaviour.
This is particularly pertinent when it comes to trends in social media use over time, and we recommend that readers use the change figures published below, rather than trying to re-calculate growth figures using data published in our previous reports.
And on that note, Kepios’s analysis shows that social media user identities in Transnistria decreased by 650* (-0.6 percent) between early 2024 and the beginning of 2025.
Turning our attention to user demographics, data published in the ad planning tools of top social media platforms indicates that there were 103 thousand users aged 18 and above using social media in Transnistria at the beginning of 2025, which was equivalent to [N/A] of the total population aged 18 and above.
At that time, 64.4 percent of Transnistria’s social media user identities were female, while 35.6 percent were male.
And for added context, it may be helpful to know that 74.2 percent of Transnistria’s total internet user base (regardless of age) used at least one social media platform in January 2025.
Note: due to source data limitations, we’re only able to report gender data for “female” and “male”.
*Important note: the various signals that we use to inform our figures for social media user identities include advertising reach data published by individual social media platforms.
From time to time, these platforms may revise or “correct” the audience reach figures that they report in their advertising tools, and these interventions may result in apparent declines in reported audience reach.
In such instances, the figures that we report for social media user identities may also show a consequent decline in overall social media activity, but this is only because the platforms’ tools do not enable us to re-collect revised data for historical periods.
Indeed, in most instances where our social media user identities numbers show declines, it is unlikely that actual social media user numbers have declined to the same extent, and this is one of the reasons why we refer to “social media user identities” instead of “social media users”.
As a result, we advise significant caution when interpreting trends relating to negative trends in social media user identities figures.
Additional resources
Just before we get to the overview graphic, here are some suggestions for further reading, which will provide additional context for our full set of Digital 2025 numbers for Transnistria:
Read our complete Digital 2025 Global Overview Report to get a comprehensive overview of the “state of digital” around the world in 2025.
Click here to see all of the Global Digital Reports we’ve published for Transnistria over the years.
Explore all of our reports on countries in the Eastern Europe region by clicking here.
Find all of the reports in the Digital 2025 series via this handy index page.
Visit our complete online library to see all of the (free!) reports in the Global Digital Reports series.
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Overview graphic
You’ll find a handy overview of the current “state of digital” in Transnistria in the graphic below.