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.

[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.

[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....