Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has revealed that his company is very much willing to bring the whole world online, Austrian Tribune has learned.

During a Mexico City event hosted by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim on Friday, Zuckerberg gushed that the famous social networking site is looking into pursuing its objective of "connecting everyone in the world," which according to him translates to bringing the Internet to the entire world.

The 30-year-old computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur even said that Facebook is willing to spend billions of dollars just to complete the decade-long project, reported Northern Voices Online News.

"What we really care about is connecting everyone in the world," Zuckerberg said during the event, adding, "Even if it means that Facebook has to spend billions of dollars over the next decade making this happen, I believe that over the long term its gonna be a good thing for us and for the world."

According to the young CEO, his company firmly believes that a rapid boost in national economies and businesses can be expected if Internet connectivity is made available in all countries all over the world.

Just last year, Facebook launched its Internet.org project in line with its goal of bringing the whole world online. The said project aims to connect billions of people who still lack access to the Internet such as those residing in certain regions of Africa and Asia, noted The Economic Times.

Facebook is reportedly working with phone operators for the Internet.org project to hasten the process of making the Internet available in a number of countries deprived of it.

The International Telecommunications Union statistics show that around 3 billion people around the world have access to the Internet by the end of this year. Almost half of the said figure - or specifically 1.3 billion people - are using Facebook, which is currently considered the world's largest social networking site.