5/22/22, 12:03 AM Myanmar: Freedom on the Net 2021 Country Report | Freedom House software bundlers are almost three times more common. Microsoft has also raised concerns about the number of infections by the malware worm Win/Macoute; the worm spreads through USB drives, which are very common in Myanmar, and communicates the drive’s contents to a remote host. 360 Footnotes 1 The number of internet users was reported in June 2019 at 18m by Internet World Stats, see “Internet Usage in Asia,” Internet World Stats, [n.d.], https://www.internetworldstats.com/stats3.htm; A report on Myanmar in February 2020 by Hootsuite identified that this number had grown to 22m users by the beginning of 2020, see Simon Kemp, “Digital 2020: Myanmar,” Datareportal, March 23, 2021, https://datareportal.com/reports/digital2021-myanmar; 43.3 percent of the population and a growth of 2.5m persons over the course of the year. 2 James Barton, “Ooredoo Myanmar and MPT step up 4G offerings,” Developing Telecoms, June 6, 2017, https://www.developingtelecoms.com/tech/wireless-networks/7110-ooredoo-…. 3 Ministry of Transport and Communications, “Establishing Internet Exchange in Myanmar,” September 7, 2020, https://www.unescap.org/sites/default/files/6%20Myanmar%20CLMV-%20Inter… 4 One index rates the percentage of the population using the internet as 33.1 percent in 2019 as compared to 51.8 percent for the Asia region, see “Internet Usage in Asia,” Internet World Stats, [n.d.], https://www.internetworldstats.com/stats3.htm; Others rate Myanmar as 39 percent, South-East Asia as 63 percent, and Asia as 52 percent, see “The Global State of Digital in 2019 Report,” Hootsuite, [n.d], accessed on October 2, 2019, https://hootsuite.com/pages/digital-in-2019. 5 Myanmar is 106 in the world for mobile speeds and 127 for fixed line speeds, see “Speedtest Global Index,” Ookla® Speed Test, accessed June, 2021, https://www.speedtest.net/global-index/republic-of-the-union-ofmyanmar. More footnotes On Myanmar See all data, scores & information on this country or territory. See More Country Facts Global Freedom Score 9 /100 Not Free Internet Freedom Score 17 /100 Not Free Freedom in the World Status TOP Not Free Networks Restricted Yes https://freedomhouse.org/country/myanmar/freedom-net/2021 27/28