The provided table demonstrates the percentage of households in five countries that had access to four types of modern technology, namely the Internet, Mobile Phones, Computers and Smart TVs, in 2010 and 2020.
Overall, although access to all four technologies increased in all the given countries, Brazil experienced the most significant increases in several categories. Moreover, Mobile access recorded the higher figure in all five countries, while Smart TVs showed the lowest figure.
In terms of Internet Access, Japan had the highest proportion, rising from 80% to 97%, followed by the USA and the UK, whose figure rose from 75% to 95% and 70% 93%, respectively, between 2010 and 2020. There was a difference of 28 percentage points between Germany and Brazil, with Germany recording the higher figure at 68%. Their figures then increased by 22 and 35 percentage points. As for Mobile phones, Japan again ranked first, at 90%, which increased to 99% in 2020, whereas Brazil had the lowest proportion initially, at 60%, and this soared to 90%. The figures for the remaining nations initially ranged between 75% and 85%, in contrast, in 2020, they ranged from 94% to 98%.
With regard to Computer Access, Brazil had the lowest percentage, at 35%, which doubled by 2020. There was a slight variation among the remaining nations, ranging from 66% to 78%, and these figure grew in 2020 to between 83% and 91%. Finally, regarding Smart TVs Access the percentage of households in all five countries grew significantly, with Brazil experiencing the largest increase, from 10% to 45% over the period. Japan, however, recorded the highest figure in 2020, at 65%, followed by the USA at 60% Germany at 58% and the UK at 55%.