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Detailed explanation-1: -Rural India has 351 million users, or 37 percent of people there, according to a report by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and data analytics company KANTAR. Around 762 million Indians have not adopted the internet yet–out of which 63 per cent live in rural areas.

Detailed explanation-2: -About 351 million of India’s 692 million active internet users are in rural parts of the country, where internet penetration stands at 37%, according to a report by IAMAI and Kantar.

Detailed explanation-3: -According to the report, called Internet in India, based on an ICUBE 2021 study, much of the growth in internet users continues to be driven by rural India with 351 million users with 37% penetration, while urban India seems to have hit a plateau with 341 million users with 69% penetration.

Detailed explanation-4: -The report says “much of the growth continues to be driven by rural India (351 million users) as urban India seems to have hit a plateau (341 million users", and estimates there will be 900 million internet users in India by 2025.

Detailed explanation-5: -This statistic represents the population of India, classified by region for the year 2017 with a forecast till 2022. In 2017, the rural population in the country amounted to about 450 million and was estimated to reach 506 million in 2022.