As of January 2025, 95 percent of the Canadian population accessed the internet. Online penetration among individuals in Canada has increased over the past reported periods, as in 2019, the percentage of people accessing the internet in the country was around 91 percent.

Percentage of Canadians who have access to the Internet at home.

Canadian Internet use survey, Internet use by location of access, for Canada, provinces and selected census metropolitan areas (CMA), from 2005 to 2009. (Terminated)

Based on a March 2024 survey of adult internet users in Canada, 86 percent of the respondents accessed the internet with a desktop or laptop. While computers are consistently the most common device Canadians use to connect to the internet, smartphones and mobile devices have also increasingly become a popular choice to go online, with their use jumping to over 70 percent during the last examined year.

The population share with internet access in Canada was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2029 by in total 1.5 percentage points. After the ninth consecutive increasing year, the internet penetration is estimated to reach 95.37 percent and therefore a new peak in 2029. Notably, the population share with internet access of was continuously increasing over the past years.The penetration rate refers to the share of the total population having access to the internet via any means. The shown figures have been derived from survey data that has been processed to estimate missing demographics.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in more than 150 countries and regions worldwide. All input data are sourced from international institutions, national statistical offices, and trade associations. All data has been are processed to generate comparable datasets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).

Percentage of enterprises using specific connection types to access the Internet by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and size of enterprise.

Canadian Internet use survey, Internet use, location of access and level of education, for Canada from 2005 to 2009. (Terminated)

The population share with mobile internet access in Canada was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2029 by in total 1.5 percentage points. After the ninth consecutive increasing year, the mobile internet penetration is estimated to reach 92.51 percent and therefore a new peak in 2029. Notably, the population share with mobile internet access of was continuously increasing over the past years.The penetration rate refers to the share of the total population having access to the internet via a mobile broadband connection.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).

Percentage of Canadians' locations of Internet access for personal use, during the past three months.

A March 2020 survey revealed that Canadian online users in Nova Scotia were most likely to have a satellite internet connection as eight percent of survey respondents from that province claimed of having a satellite connection at home. Overall, 87 percent of Canadian internet users had a broadband connection at home.

The National Broadband Data represents coverage information across Canada for existing broadband service providers with their associated technology types. The coverage information is aggregated and deployed over a grid of hexagons, which cover areas of roughly 25 square km each. Broadband Internet service availability is provided for download/upload speed markers (5/1, 10/2, 25/5 and 50/10 Mbps) where more than 75% of total dwellings covered within the hexagon have access to broadband service offerings meeting these markers. In order to improve the granularity of the broadband data, ISED and the CRTC are providing aggregated and anonymous broadband services data based on the pseudo-household statistical model, hence achieving higher precision in depicting the broadband Internet service availability. This information is available below under the "NBD PHH Speeds" resource. For more information on the pseudo-household statistical model, refer to the Pseudo-Household Demographic Distribution dataset. A representation of broadband services per 250m road segments is now available for download under the “NBD Roads” resource. To generate this dataset, the NBD PHH Speeds information was projected over the nearest road arc from Statistics Canada’s Road Network File, and those roads were spliced in approximately 250m segments. NEW: The data has been augmented to include new presentation layers as published on the National Broadband Map.

Canadian Internet use survey, households with access to the Internet at home by provinces and census metropolitan areas (CMA) from 2010 and 2012.

Percentage of individuals who used the Internet in the past three months.

Percentage of Internet users by selected Internet service and technology, such as; home Internet access, use of smart home devices, use of smartphones, use of social networking accounts, use or purchase of streaming services, use of government services online and online shopping.

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Percentage of Canadians' personal use of the Internet, during the past three months.

As of January 2025, around 90 percent of internet users in Canada used mobile phones to go online. The second-most used devices for internet access were laptops or desktops, including personal or employee-issued devices.

As of January 2024, Canada had almost 37 million internet users, which amounted to 94.3 percent of the country's population. Of this total, 31.90 million were social media users.

Mapping of public wireless Internet access points (ZAPs) in Quebec City.**This third party metadata element was translated using an automated translation tool (Amazon Translate).**

Digital technology and Internet use, type of Internet connection, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), size of enterprise and type of Internet connection for Canada from 2012 to 2013.