Digital 2022: Cocos (Keeling) Island
This page contains an overview of essential headlines for digital adoption and use in Cocos (Keeling) Island in 2022.
You’ll find a handy summary of these headlines in the “overview graphic” section below, but let’s start by taking a look at the essential headlines for digital adoption and use in Cocos Island this year.
Cocos (Keeling) Island’s population in 2022
Cocos’s total population was 544 in January 2022.
Data show that Cocos Island’s population remained unchanged between 2021 and 2022.
50.5 percent of Cocos’s population is female, while 49.5 percent of the population is male.
Note: gender data are currently only available for “female” and “male”.
Cocos (Keeling) Island’s population by age
The median age of the population in Cocos is 42.0.
Internet use in Cocos (Keeling) Island in 2022
There were 414 internet users in Cocos in January 2022.
Cocos’s internet penetration rate stood at 76.1 percent of the total population at the start of 2022.
Kepios analysis indicates that internet users in Cocos Island remained unchanged between 2021 and 2022.
For perspective, these user figures reveal that 130 people in Cocos Island did not use the internet at the start of 2022, meaning that 23.9 percent of the population remained offline at the beginning of the year.
However, issues relating to COVID-19 continue to impact research into internet adoption, so actual internet user figures may be higher than these published numbers suggest (see here for further details).
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Social media statistics for Cocos (Keeling) Island in 2022
There were 200 social media users in Cocos (Keeling) Island in January 2022.
The number of social media users in Cocos Island at the start of 2022 was equivalent to 36.8 percent of the total population, but it’s important to note that social media users may not represent unique individuals (see our detailed notes on data to learn why).
Note: due to significant revisions in user numbers in the source data, we regret that we’re currently unable to provide figures for the year-on-year change in social media users in Cocos Island.
Facebook users in Cocos (Keeling) Island in 2022
Data published in Meta’s advertising resources indicates that Facebook had 150 users in Cocos in early 2022.
However, Meta made important changes to the way its advertising resources report audience reach data at the end of 2021 – including making significant revisions to its base audience data for Facebook – so the figures shown here are not directly comparable with figures published in our previous reports.
To learn more about these changes, please see this article, as well as our comprehensive notes on data.
The company’s revised audience figures mean that Facebook’s ad reach in Cocos Island was equivalent to 27.6 percent of the total population at the start of 2022.
For additional context, Facebook’s ad reach in Cocos was equivalent to 36.2 percent of the local internet user base (regardless of age) in January 2022.
At the start of 2022, 50.0 percent of Facebook’s ad audience in Cocos Island was female, while 50.0 percent was male.
Note: Meta’s advertising resources only publish audience gender data for “female” and “male” users.
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Facebook Messenger users in Cocos (Keeling) Island in 2022
Data published in Meta’s advertising resources indicate that ads on Facebook Messenger reached 50 users in Cocos in early 2022.
However, Meta made important changes to the way its advertising resources report audience reach data at the end of 2021 – including making significant revisions to its base audience data for Facebook Messenger – so the figures shown here are not directly comparable with figures published in our previous reports.
To learn more about these changes, please see this article, as well as our comprehensive notes on data.
The company’s revised audience numbers suggest that Facebook Messenger’s ad reach in Cocos was equivalent to 9.2 percent of the total population at the start of the year.
For additional context, Facebook Messenger’s ad reach in Cocos is equivalent to 12.1 percent of the local internet user base (regardless of age).
Notes: Meta’s advertising resources only publish audience gender data for “female” and “male” users.
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Mobile connections in Cocos (Keeling) Island in 2022
Data from GSMA Intelligence shows that there were 358 cellular mobile connections in Cocos at the start of 2022.
However, note that many people around the world make use of more than one mobile connection – for example, they might have one connection for personal use, and another one for work – so it’s not unusual for mobile connection figures to significantly exceed figures for total population.
GSMA Intelligence’s numbers indicate that mobile connections in Cocos Island were equivalent to 65.8 percent of the total population in January 2022.
The number of mobile connections in Cocos increased by 8 (+2.3 percent) between 2021 and 2022.
Additional resources
Just before we get to the full report, here are some suggestions for further reading, which will provide additional context for our full set of Digital 2022 numbers for Cocos (Keeling) Island:
Read our complete Digital 2022 Global Overview Report to get a comprehensive overview of the “state of digital” around the world in 2022.
Click here to see all of the Global Digital Reports we’ve published on Cocos (Keeling) Island over the past decade.
Explore all of our reports on countries in Oceania by clicking here.
Visit our complete online reports library to find all of the (free!) reports in the Global Digital Reports series.
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