An analysis of Social Media use
in The SADC region - 2014 - 2020

those countries where GNI per capita82 is higher, with Senegal being an exception. In particular, 44% of Internet users in South Africa spend most of their time on social media,
68% Tanzania and six in ten (62%) in Lesotho spend most of their time on the Internet
mainly for communication purposes. Only 21% of the users access educational content
on the Internet, while 15% use the Internet for work as shown in figure 10 below:
Figure 10: Mobile Internet usage

Source: Research Africa83

82 https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GNP.PCAP.CD
83 https://researchictafrica.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2019_After-Access_Africa-Comparative-report.pdf

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