Now served: 1,000,000,000

[andrewducker]

The population of the internet is now definitely over 1 billion, and possibly as high as 1.5 billion people.

What I had no idea about was that China now has more people on the internet than the USA...

Top 10 countries, by Internet population:

1. China: 179.7 million
2. United States: 163.3 million
3. Japan: 60.0 million
4. Germany: 37.0 million
5. United Kingdom: 36.7 million
6. France: 34.0 million
7. India: 32.1 million
8. Russia: 29.0 million
9. Brazil: 27.7 million
10. South Korea: 27.3 million

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[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

Any idea what defines an "internet user"? Is it number of active IP addresses? Does it include business or just personal? Is every employee in a company that connects assumed to be a user? How do they know how many folks are behind each residential IP address? How many people are counted twice if business and residential are both looked at?

Or is it just a representative sample poll in each country to extrapolate figures?

I know you probably don't have answers to hand to the above but it seems to be a very arbitrary figure without definition.

[andrewducker]

I have to do everything for you, don't I?

http://www.comscore.com/method/default.asp

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

:) I skimmed the ComScore site but missed the methodology link first time round. Ta.

[princealbert.livejournal.com]

Taking the above data and using wikipedia's most current population estimates you get this take up rate:

1. United Kingdom: 1.66
2. South Korea: 1.79
3. United States: 1.87
4. France: 1.91
5. Japan: 2.12
6. Germany: 2.21
7. Russia: 4.89
8. Brazil: 6.87
9. China: 7.35
10. India: 35.76

footnote: just couldn't be bothered to use CIA Factbook for such a rough estimate.

[andrewducker]

What's the score mean? 1.66 what?

[cybik.livejournal.com]

1 internet (person) per 1.66 people, it looks like..

[princealbert.livejournal.com]

yup
Sorry thought it was obvious. Population divide by internet users.

[andrewducker]

Gotcha - cheers!

[andrewducker]

Aaah, that makes sense!

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

I think the reciprocal - the penetration rate - makes more sense to me!

Interesting that the UK is top, though.

[endless-psych.livejournal.com]

The Government has been quietly plugging away campaigning to get everyone on the net. I dunno if they had a hand in increasing broadband access or not but it does look like one more policy gets moved over from the ineffectual to the actually quietly working pile. (The latter pile may just stand at one but there you go ;))

[d-c-m.livejournal.com]

This is very cool. Now I am wondering - What about the people who don't get online? Are we leaving them behind somehow? Hmmm....

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

And as if by magic, a survey appears

[d-c-m.livejournal.com]

Wow! Cool and thanks for sharing. :)

[andrewducker]

Nice one :->