Say Hello to 824 Million Cybernauts

• Posted: Wednesday, April 02, 2008
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• Author: pradhana
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• Filed under: Internet Users, Market Survey

As of January 2008, the US accounted for 21% of Internet users worldwide, or 173 million Internet users according to comScore. This figure does not include users accessing the Internet from public computers or mobile phones.

While growth in the Internet audience has slowed in the US and other developed countries, it has accelerated in other regions of the world, particularly Asia-Pacific and Eastern Europe
Asia-Pacific is the region with the largest online population. In 2008, there were 309 million Internet users in the region, which was a 14% increase over 2007.

Europe is the second-largest region, with 233 million Internet users as of January 2008, though that was an increase of only 6.8% over 2007.

The online populations in Latin America and Africa/Middle East are also growing quickly, rising in Jamuary 2008 by 16.6% and 20% respectively. However, these two regions represent a small portion of total Internet users, with just 59 and 40 million Internet users respectively.

Overall, comScore says there were 824 million Internet users worldwide in January 2008. [eMarketer]

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