Digital 2026: Abkhazia
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This page explores the adoption and use of connected devices and services in Abkhazia in 2026.
If you want to know whether this is our most recent report on Abkhazia, or if you’re looking for data on digital trends and behaviours in Abkhazia for other years, you can find DataReportal’s full collection of (free!) reports on Abkhazia 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 Abkhazia this year.
Just before that, you might like to know that this year’s report is brought to you with the support of Kepios.
A note on dates
To align our reporting more closely with our readers’ digital planning cycles, please be aware that we published our Digital 2026 reports at the end of 2025.
As a result, many of the data points we’ll reference in this article are from late 2025.
For reassurance, these data points reflect the latest available data in October 2025, so they’re still highly representative of digital adoption and evolving preferences and behaviours in Abkhazia in 2026.
However, because we’ve changed our publication cycle since our Digital 2025 reports, please pay close attention to the dates and time periods stated in this article and in our accompanying Digital 2026 reports, and avoid calculating values for change over time by referencing data published in our previous reports and articles.
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The “state of digital” in Abkhazia in 2026
Here are DataReportal’s essential headlines for the adoption and use of connected devices and services in Abkhazia in 2026:
There were 149 thousand individuals using the internet in Abkhazia at the end of 2025, when online penetration stood at 60.8 percent.
Abkhazia was home to 118 thousand social media user identities in October 2025, equating to 48.3 percent of the total population.
These headline stats offer a great overview of the “state of digital” in Abkhazia for 2026, but in order to make sense of how digital trends and behaviours have been evolving, we need to dig deeper into the data.
So, let’s take a closer look at what the numbers tell us, starting with some valuable context relating to the population of Abkhazia.
Population of Abkhazia in 2026
Data indicates that the population of Abkhazia stood at 244 thousand in October 2025.
The data also shows that Abkhazia’s population remained unchanged between the end of 2024 and the end of 2025.
Meanwhile, in late 2025, 50.2 percent of Abkhazia’s population lived in urban centres, whereas 49.8 percent lived in rural areas.
Internet use in Abkhazia in 2026
At the time of report production, Kepios’s analysis of the latest available data indicated that there were 149 thousand internet users in Abkhazia in October 2025.
This means that Abkhazia’s internet penetration rate stood at 60.8 percent of the total population at the end of the year.
For reference, our internet user figures are informed by data from numerous reputable sources, including:
The ITU (the International Telecommunication Union), which is the United Nations’ specialised agency for digital technologies that “facilitates international connectivity in communication networks”.
GSMA Intelligence, which is the market intelligence arm of the GSMA, a global organisation that ”unifies the mobile ecosystem to discover, develop, and deliver innovation”.
Eurostat, which is the statistical office of the European Union.
National telecommunications authorities, government regulators, and national statistics offices.
Planning tools provided by various large internet companies, including Google and Meta.
Kepios’s analysis of this data indicates that the number of internet users in Abkhazia increased by 12 thousand (+8.8 percent) between October 2024 and October 2025.
And for added perspective, Abkhazia’s internet adoption rate (i.e. the percentage of the total population that uses the internet) increased by a relative 8.8 percent (+491 basis points) during the same period.
But these user figures also suggest that 95.7 thousand people in Abkhazia did not use the internet at the end of 2025, suggesting that 39.2 percent of the population remained “offline” at the end 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 Abkhazia in 2026
Proprietary analysis conducted by Kepios on behalf of DataReportal indicates that there were 118 thousand active social media user identities in Abkhazia in October 2025.
For perspective, this figure was equivalent to 48.3 percent of Abkhazia’s total population at the end of 2025.
However, while Kepios’s 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.
Consequently, 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 Abkhazia increased by 12 thousand (+11.0 percent) between late 2024 and the end of 2025.
Turning our attention to user demographics, data published in the ad planning tools of top social media platforms indicates that there were 115 thousand users aged 18 and above using social media in Abkhazia at the end of 2025.
At that time, 60.3 percent of Abkhazia’s social media user identities were female, while 39.7 percent were male.
And for added context, it may be helpful to know that 79.4 percent of Abkhazia’s total internet user base (regardless of age) used at least one social media platform in October 2025.
Note: due to source data limitations, we’re only able to report gender data for “female” and “male”.
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 2026 numbers for Abkhazia:
Read our complete Digital 2026 Global Overview Report to get a comprehensive overview of the “state of digital” around the world in 2026.
Click here to see all of the Global Digital Reports we’ve published for Abkhazia over the years.
Explore all of our reports on countries in the Western Asia region by clicking here.
Find all of the reports in the Digital 2026 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 Abkhazia in the graphic below.