4. What is the IoT?
• The Internet of Things (IoT) is a scenario in which objects, animals or
people are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer
data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-
to-computer interaction
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Year Users Population % Pen. Usage Source
2000 N/A 22,853,500 N/A ITU
2006 300,000 27,089,593 1.1 % ITU
2010 1,000,000 29,121,286 3.4 % ITU
2011 1,256,470 29,835,392 4.2 % ITU
2012 1,520,996 30,419,928 5.0 % ITU
2013 1,877,548 31,822,848 5.9 % ITU
2015 4,005,414 32,564,342 12.3 % IWS
2016 4,005,414 33,332,025 12.0 % IWS
Internet Usage Statistics Afghanistan [1]
Internet society Afghanistan reported that: “we have five million Internet users in 2017 and estimated
that this number will increase to fifteen million by 2020 “ [7]