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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[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 ;))