Internet Population Grows to 2.4 Billion People
According to updated Internet population numbers released by Internet World Stats, there are now 2,405,518,376 people connected to the Web.
Applied to a world population of 7.0 billion people, more than one third of the entire population is now accessing the Internet.
The lion's share of users resides in Asia (44.8 percent), followed by Europe (21.5 percent) and North America (11.4 percent). The highest penetration rates can still be found in North America (78.6 percent), Europe (63.2 percent) and the Middle east (40.2 percent). The lowest penetration is in Africa (15.6 percent).
For North America, 89.6 percent of Internet users live in the United States, but Greenland has the highest penetration rate: An estimated 52,000 people of a total population of 57,695 has Internet access (90.1 percent). The highest penetration rates can be found in Europe, specifically in Monaco (100.6 percent), Iceland (97.1 percent) and Norway (96.9 percent).
At least in theory about a quarter of all Internet residents own a web URL. Netcraft recently said that it identified 629,939,191 active sites in the beginning of January.
Got to love THG's articles.
The 0.6% in Monaco are prob. unborn children whose heart rate monitor has a Facebook page making them countable... :-)
Got to love THG's articles.
The 0.6% in Monaco are prob. unborn children whose heart rate monitor has a Facebook page making them countable... :-)
I guess there are always homeless people, babies, the blind, mentally handicapped, people in comas, Amish, and hunter-gathering natives. Wait, how is it that Monaco has none of those people and an additional 0.6% population?
Tourists?
"Greenland has the highest penetration rate"
"The highest penetration rates can be found in Europe"
pschoooo
If I have both a DSL connection at home and mobile broadband on my smartphone do I count twice?
Anyway, whatever way they are using to calculate the internet population, it's probably not very accurate, but you get the bigger picture.
that's how I performed last night.