China, as always, is at the heart of this change - they increased from 8.5% penetration to 9.4% (making up 32.3% of Asia's total). Japan is second in Asia, with 22.7% share - but their country penetration is much higher at 67.2%.
Europe has also had a slight increase, from 36.1 % population penetration to 36.4 % - but their global % has dropped from 28.5% to 28.2%. North America's population penetration has stayed steady, at 68.6%. However, mainly because of Asia's increase, North America's global % has dropped from 22.2% to 21.8 %.
These might seem like minor changes, but bear in mind it's only over 3 months - imagine what Asia's Internet penetration will look like in 2 years time, or 5 years! Especially given they currently have 56.4% of the world's population of 6.5 Billion.
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WORLD INTERNET USAGE AND POPULATION STATISTICS |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
|
World Regions |
Population |
% Population |
Usage |
Usage Growth |
|
14.1 % |
2.6 % |
2.3 % |
423.9 % |
|
|
56.4 % |
10.4 % |
36.5 % |
232.8 % |
|
|
12.4 % |
36.4 % |
28.2 % |
179.8 % |
|
|
2.9 % |
9.6 % |
1.7 % |
454.2 % |
|
|
5.1 % |
68.6 % |
21.8 % |
110.4 % |
|
|
8.5 % |
14.7 % |
7.8 % |
350.5 % |
|
|
0.5 % |
52.6 % |
1.7 % |
134.6 % |
|
|
WORLD TOTAL |
100.0 % |
16.0 % |
100.0 % |
189.0 % |
Source: World Internet Usage Statistics and Population Stats
More fascinating data in the following table, which shows the US still well ahead of China and Japan in Internet users. Similar to the broadband penetration table (except India, the world's second biggest country, doesn't even make the top 20 there).
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TOP 20 COUNTRIES WITH HIGHEST NUMBER OF INTERNET USERS |
#
Country or Region
Internet Users,
Latest Data
Internet
Penetration
% Users
of World
1
205,493,713
68.7 %
19.7 %
2
123,000,000
9.4 %
11.8 %
3
86,300,000
67.2 %
8.3 %
4
50,600,000
4.5 %
4.9 %
5
49,976,303
60.6 %
4.8 %
6
37,800,000
62.9 %
3.6 %
7
33,900,000
67.0 %
3.2 %
8
28,870,000
48.8 %
2.8 %
9
26,871,652
44.0 %
2.6 %
10
25,900,000
14.1 %
2.5 %
11
23,700,000
16.5 %
2.3 %
12
21,900,000
67.9 %
2.1 %
13
18,000,000
8.1 %
1.7 %
14
17,577,975
39.6 %
1.7 %
15
17,100,000
16.3 %
1.6 %
16
14,189,557
68.4 %
1.4 %
17
13,800,000
60.3 %
1.3 %
18
10,806,328
65.9 %
1.0 %
19
10,600,000
27.8 %
1.0 %
20
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 %
100.0 %
Source: Internet Users - Top 20 Countries - Internet Usage
A sidenote: my own little country, New Zealand, is now the number 1 ranked country in the world in terms of Internet Penetration. NZ has 76.3%! USA, the top ranked 'big country' is 7th with 68.6%.
English still dominates on the Web, at 30%. But note that Chinese is actually more widely used in real life, so one would think over time Chinese will become much more prominent on the Web.
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TOP TEN LANGUAGES |
% of all |
Internet Users |
Internet |
Internet Growth |
World Population |
|
|
30.0 % |
312,924,679 |
27.8 % |
128.1 % |
1,125,664,397 |
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|
13.8 % |
144,301,513 |
10,8 % |
346.7 % |
1,340,767,863 |
||
|
8.3 % |
86,300,000 |
67.2 % |
83.3 % |
128,389,000 |
||
|
7.5 % |
78,166,075 |
17.9 % |
216.7 % |
429,293,261 |
||
|
5.6 % |
58,214,778 |
60.7 % |
110.9 % |
95,982,043 |
||
|
4.4 % |
45,807,499 |
12.0 % |
275.5 % |
381,193,149 |
||
|
3.2 % |
33,900,000 |
45.8 % |
78.0 % |
73,945,860 |
||
|
3.1 % |
32,372,000 |
14.0 % |
327.3 % |
230,846,275 |
||
|
2.8 % |
28,870,000 |
48.8 % |
118.7 % |
59,115,261 |
||
|
2.3 % |
23,700,000 |
16.5 % |
664.5 % |
143,682,757 |
||
|
TOP TEN LANGUAGES |
81.0 % |
844,556,544 |
21.0 % |
160.7 % |
4,008,879,867 |
|
|
Rest of World Languages |
19.0 % |
198,548,342 |
8.0 % |
436.0 % |
2,490,817,193 |
|
|
100.0 % |
1,043,104,886 |
16.0 % |
189.0 % |
6,499,697,060 |
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India is not the second biggest country. It is the second most populated. In terms of area, it is 7th in the world.
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