Submitted by CARPE DIEM

From today’s Washington Post:

The human race is crossing a line. There is now one cellphone for every two humans on Earth.

From essentially zero, we’ve passed a watershed of more than 3.3 billion active cellphones on a planet of some 6.6 billion humans in about 26 years. This is the fastest global diffusion of any technology in human history — faster even than the polio vaccine (see related chart above from The Economist).

And cellphones are the first telecommunications technology in history to have more users in the developing world — almost 60% — than in the West. Cellphone usage in Africa has been growing close to 50% annually — faster than any other region. More than 30 African nations have more cellphones than land lines.
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