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Before we start to compare L. America to the rest of the world it is useful to look at a World Map of Internet Users. This shows that for most the developed world (US and Canada, W. Europe, Japan, Taiwan, S. Korea) typically 40% or more of the people have Internet connectivity while for Latin America and the Caribbean that contains about 8% of the world's population, the penetration is about 17%, i.e. typically a factor of 2-3 less.
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