Sunday, January 25, 2009
The global number of internet users exceeds 1000 million, compared to China
Posted by Lesbond at Sunday, January 25, 2009
The number of Internet users worldwide has exceeded 1,000 billion and China is the country with most Internet users, reported Friday that the digital research company comScore Inc.
"Overcoming 1000 million users is a significant mark in the history of the Internet," said executive chairman of comScore, Magid Abraham, in a statement.
"The next one billion will be connected before you realize, and one billion more will come even faster than the previous ones," said Abraham. ComScore says that the Asia-Pacific owns 41% of users, followed by Europe (28%), North America (18%), Latin America (7%) and Middle East and Africa (5%).
China is the country with most Internet users with nearly 180 million people networked in December, followed by U.S. with 163 million, Japan with 60 million, Germany and Britain with almost 37 million each and France with 34 million.
