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If you have ever been curious
just how many people actually use the internet worldwide as of Dec
31st of 2007 there are currently 1,319,872,109 active users.
In retrospect there are an estimated 6, 659, 679, 758 people in
the world meaning over 1/6 of the entire world currently
has internet access.
Breaking these numbers
down by continents the below information summarizes the number of
internet users that currently reside in each continent. Also included
are the percentage of people who use the internet based on their
population and what percentage each continent possesses of total
world internet use…
World Internet
Usage and Population Statistics
Africa
– 44,361,940 users – 3.4% of world usage - 4.7% of people use internet
Asia – 510, 478, 743
users – 38.7% of world usage - 13.7% of people use internet
Europe – 348,125,847
users – 26.4% of world usage - 43.4% of people use internet
Middle East – 33,510,500
users – 2.5% of world usage - 17.4% of people use internet
North America – 238,015,529
users – 18.0% of world usage - 71.1% of people use internet
Latin America – 126,203,714
users – 9.6% of world usage – 22.2% of people use the internet
Australia - 1,319,872,109
users – 1.5% of the world usage – 57.1% of the people use the internet
It is interesting to note that although Asia has
by far the greatest number of internet users North America has the
greatest ratio of internet users based on their population. It is
also interesting the as country as large as Australia only accounts
for 1.5 of total internet use.
This information is currently posted at www.internetworldstats.com
which has up to date information on th subject.
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