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500 Million Internet Users in Asia-PacificAccording to a recent eMarketer report, China will overtake the United States this year as the most populous Internet nation in the world and the Asia-Pacific region as a whole will exceed 500 million Internet users. The report states "By 2012, nearly 50% of the world’s Internet population will live in the Asia-Pacific region. The share of the world’s Internet users in Europe and North America will fall, though absolute numbers will continue to rise in both regions, as the share of users in Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region both grow." Source: eMarketer Report, 2008 Labels: Internet Growth, Internet Penetration 0 comments. Click here to post comments. Internet Usage Growth Following up on a previous post (One Out of Every Five Persons Uses the Internet), this chart illustrates the growth rate of the internet from 2000 to 2007, broken out into regions around the world, as well as the world average of 265.6% growth in seven years.Source: Internet World Stats, 2008 Labels: Internet Growth, Internet Penetration, Internet Usage 0 comments. Click here to post comments. World Internet Penetration Rates Following up on a previous post (One Out of Every Five Persons Uses the Internet), this chart illustrates the penetration rate of the internet broken out into regions around the world, as well as the world average, which reached 20.0% in 2007.Source: Internet World Stats, 2008 Labels: Internet Penetration 0 comments. Click here to post comments. One Out of Every Five Persons Uses the InternetInternet World Stats announced today statistics for 2007 year end that show that twenty percent (20.0 %) of the world population uses the Internet. This figure is based on the 1,319,872,109 estimated persons using the Internet as of December 31, 2007, and a total world population estimate of 6,606,971,659 on December 31, 2007.The 2007 fourth quarter figures confirm that global Internet growth since December of 2000 has been 265.6% , a very healthy growth for the [World Wide Web]. Internet growth in the 2000-2007 period has been higher in the less penetrated areas of the world (Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia) and lower in the more penetrated areas (Europe, Oceania / Australia, and North America). Regarding the Internet Penetration Rate (the percentage of the population that uses the Internet), penetration rate is very different in each geographic region of the world. North America continues to be the most penetrated area with 71.1% of the population using the Internet. Second comes Oceania (Australia) with 57.1%, third is Europe with 43.4%. The lowest Internet penetration is found in Africa at 4.7% for the year 2007. Labels: Internet Penetration, Internet Usage 0 comments. Click here to post comments. |
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