15 Facts On Global Internet Usage
Do you know which population surfed Internet the most? How many % of the world’s population come online everyday? How many countries still do not have Internet connection?
Here are some interesting figure facts for you geeks who want to know more about the Internet usage. Full list after jump.
Statistics gathered from InternetWorldStats.
Do you know which population surfed Internet the most? How many % of the world’s population come online everyday? How many countries still do not have Internet connection?
Here are some interesting figure facts for you geeks who want to know more about the Internet usage. Full list after jump.
- 35.6% of internet users are Asian.
- With average of 389 million of internet surfers each month, Asia is the largest internet crowd among other world regions.
- In Afirca, 3 out of 100 surf the Internet.
- In Asia, 10 out of 100 surf the Internet.
- In Europe, 38 out of 100 surf the Internet.
- In Middle East, 10 out of 100 surf the Internet.
- In North America, 70 out of 100 surf the Internet.
- In Latin America, 16 out of 100 surf the Internet.
- In Australia, 53 out of 100 surf the Internet.
- Only 16.6% of world population surf the internet.
- 1 billion users around the globe are surfing the Internet every month.
- Amount of internet surfers in Asia (389,392,28 mil) is 11 times the population of Australia (34,468,443 mil).
- 19% of internet users are from United States (210,080,067 mil).
- Around 18 countries still doesn’t have Internet connection.
- North Korea’s internet penetration statistics is not publicized.
- [FONT=times new roman, new york, times, serif]The first popular web browser was called [/FONT][FONT=times new roman, new york, times, serif]Mosaic [/FONT][FONT=times new roman, new york, times, serif]and was released in 1993.[/FONT]
- [FONT=times new roman, new york, times, serif]According to [/FONT][FONT=times new roman, new york, times, serif]CyberAtlas[/FONT][FONT=times new roman, new york, times, serif], it took just 5 years for the Internet to reach 50 million users. This same milestone took radio 38 years, and took television 13 years.[/FONT]
- [FONT=times new roman, new york, times, serif]There are over 1 billion Internet users worldwide; that's 20% of the world's population.[/FONT]
- [FONT=times new roman, new york, times, serif]In 2008, the United States spent $214.4 billion online. Internet purchasing is increasing at a rate of 7 percent per year. ([/FONT][FONT=times new roman, new york, times, serif]comScore[/FONT][FONT=times new roman, new york, times, serif]reports)[/FONT]
- [FONT=times new roman, new york, times, serif]Technorati [/FONT][FONT=times new roman, new york, times, serif]tracks over 133 million blogs on the Internet.[/FONT]
- [FONT=times new roman, new york, times, serif]Social networking[/FONT][FONT=times new roman, new york, times, serif] is the fastest growing part of the Internet. There are 70 million active users on [/FONT][FONT=times new roman, new york, times, serif]Facebook [/FONT][FONT=times new roman, new york, times, serif](the 8th most popular site in the world), and more than 14 million photos are uploaded daily.[/FONT]
- [FONT=times new roman, new york, times, serif]In January, 2009, the average user spent 10% of all his/her online minutes on social networking sites like [/FONT][FONT=times new roman, new york, times, serif]Facebook [/FONT][FONT=times new roman, new york, times, serif]and [/FONT][FONT=times new roman, new york, times, serif]MySpace[/FONT][FONT=times new roman, new york, times, serif].[/FONT]
- [FONT=times new roman, new york, times, serif]The English version of [/FONT][FONT=times new roman, new york, times, serif]Wikipedia [/FONT][FONT=times new roman, new york, times, serif]has more than 2.3 million articles. Over one third of US adults consult Wikipedia.[/FONT]
- [FONT=times new roman, new york, times, serif]One in five of the world’s Internet users visits [/FONT][FONT=times new roman, new york, times, serif]YouTube [/FONT][FONT=times new roman, new york, times, serif]each day.[/FONT]
- [FONT=times new roman, new york, times, serif]Nielsen [/FONT][FONT=times new roman, new york, times, serif]NetRatings[/FONT][FONT=times new roman, new york, times, serif] indicates that the average Internet user, in one month, will visit 59 domains, view 1,050 pages (allocating 45 seconds for each page) and will spend about 25 hours doing all this net activity! Each surfing session lasts 51 minutes.[/FONT]
Statistics gathered from InternetWorldStats.
