Internet Population Tops 1 Billion
Internet metrics company comScore reports that the number of worldwide Internet users in December topped 1 billion users, the first time that barrier has been breached.
The key metric in the number of users is that most of them are from Asia, predominantly so: 41 percent, compared to 28 percent in North America and 18 percent in Europe.
Although a sizeable percentage of Europe speaks English in some capacity (as does Asia), the numbers indicate that most of the world’s Internet traffic will most likely be communicated using some non-English language.
China, for example, had 179 million users, topping the list of wired countries; the U.S. was second, at 163 million. Japan, Germany, and the United Kingdom rounded out the top five.
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Curt on February 3rd, 2009 9:12 am
That’s good to hear if you have an Internet business.
cassy on February 6th, 2009 4:02 am
will what else we can say? we are now in the high technology world and most of the people now are more interesting about computer that is why many are into internet,coz its the fastest way of communication and make a research using many web site for interesting story and events in the world! some people are also has their own internet connection for personal used and some are using it for homebase work like me who depend of the internet for my daily work online, so for me internet is really a big help for us!
Jaclyn on February 6th, 2009 10:44 am
I have to say that i find that very odd that the majority of internet users are from another country. everyday i hear at least 4 people talking about going on the internet for something on a daily basis. everyone i know which is some 30 or so people have internet access that they use on a daily basis, another 20 or so that use their internet at least once a week. it’s just amazing to me that the vast majority of users don’t reside in north america.
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