Around 16% of world population access the Internet

The Internet penetration has increased to 16%, up by 0.3% since June 2006. Collecting statistics from internetworldstats.com, Richard MacManus has dished the Top 20 countries with highest number of Internet users.

TOP 20 COUNTRIES WITH HIGHEST NUMBER OF INTERNET USERS
# COUNTRIES Internet Users, latest data Internet Penetration % Users of World
1 United States 205,493,713 68.7% 19.7%
2 China 123,000,000 9.4% 11.8%
3 Japan 86,300,000 67.2% 8.3%
4 India 50,600,000 4.5% 4.9%
5 Germany 49,976,303 60.6% 4.8%
6 United Kingdom 37,800,000 62.9% 3.6%
7 South Korea 33,900,000 67.0% 3.2%
8 Italy 28,870,000 48.8% 2.8%
9 France 26,871,652 44.0% 2.6%
10 Brazil 25,900,000 14.1% 2.5%
11 Russia 23,700,000 16.5% 2.3%
12 Canada 21,900,000 67.9% 2.1%
13 Indonesia 18,000,000 8.1% 1.7%
14 Spain 17,577,975 39.6% 1.7%
15 Mexico 17,100,000 16.3% 1.6%
16 Australia 14,189,557 68.4% 1.4%
17 Taiwan 13,800,000 60.3% 1.3%
18 Netherlands 10,806,328 65.9% 1.0%
19 Poland 10,600,000 27.8% 1.0%
20 Turkey 10,220,000 13.7% 1.0%
Top 20 Countries 826,605,528 20.3% 79.2%
Rest of the World 216,499,358 8.9% 20.8%
Total World users 1,043,104,886 16.0% 100%

To give a good snapshot of how people access the Internet, we add the top 10 broadband countries by subscribers. (Stats come from Point Topic and covered the time period from Q1 2005 to Q1 2006.)

The next time, we’ll try to get countries with the highest rate of converged media. Something not easy to get, so if you have some statistics, share them with us.

Sep 11, 2006 | By Nuno

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