What percentage of the world own a television?

An estimated 7.8 billion people live on Earth, and an approximately 5.4 billion own televisions. So around 90% or 4/5 of the world owns a television. By the way, China owns 28.2% of that pie, around 800 million televisions, the most of any country. The U.S. is in second with 290 million televisions, or 12.5%