Economist and blogger Justin Wehr has created this handy graph of the top 15 countries by internet population. It uses recent data from comScore, which puts the total number of unique users as of December 2008 at just over one billion. Below is the detailed breakdown.
Top 15 countries, by Internet population:
1. China: 179.7 million
2. United States: 163.3 million
3. Japan: 60.0 million
4. Germany: 37.0 million
5. United Kingdom: 36.7 million
6. France: 34.0 million
7. India: 32.1 million
8. Russia: 29.0 million
9. Brazil: 27.7 million
10. South Korea: 27.3 million
11. Canada: 21.8 million
12. Italy: 20.8 million
13. Spain: 17.9 million
14. Mexico: 12.5 million
15. Netherlands: 11.8 million
[via Wehr in the World & Techcrunch]
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That is only a SMALL percentage of China, wait until more people come online in China. I bet one day all of the people who have Internet access in China will equal all of the people in the rest of the world who have Internet access.
January 29th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Adrian, I think the same also applies to India, Russia and Brazil, those numbers are just a small percentage of the whole population that could (and eventually will) become Internet users
January 30th, 2009 at 7:08 am
Those numbers are mind boggling. You’re right, Peter, but China has a much larger population than those countries. China is a complete monster and they just got started. Scary.
February 2nd, 2009 at 11:23 pm
India is almost as populous as China and their government doesn’t restrict internet usage.
February 3rd, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Chinese big Internet “population” is one thing, but e-commerce is another. The Chinese use the Internet mainly for news, messaging, games, etc. The US is still number one in e-commerce, which is what most investors are interested in. See the 2005 study/Publications
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