Internet Approaches 2 Billion Users
PrintYou may have heard about this little thing called the Internet (how else are you reading this?). As it turns out, the World Wide Web is wide indeed and set to exceed 2 billion users before the end of the year, according to a report by the International Telecommunications Union.
That's nearly a third of the human population on earth (6.9 billion). The ITU figures the Internet will add around 226 million new users by the end of 2010, and out of those 162 million will connect from developing countries.
When 2010 comes to a close, some 71 percent of the population in developed countries will be online. Broken down regionally, 65 percent of the population in Europe will surf the Web, while 55 percent of the population in the Americas will be online.
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eric0rr
October 19, 2010 at 5:06pm
hardly anyone has invest in IPV6! i give it maybe 3 years till we run out of IP's
johnny3144
October 19, 2010 at 10:38am
1/3 of the population of the whole world.... that's it?
count in africa, count in the rural area in china, count in middle east warzones, count in the elderly... and you say that's it?
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