North America Represents 13% of over 2 Billion Internet Users Worldwide
Posted January 18th, 2012
From CNET
Internet now active with 2.1 billion users
You’re one of the 2.1 billion people actively using the Internet.
Looking at the state of the online world throughout 2011, traffic site Pingdom found that the number of Internet users has jumped from a mere 360 million at the end of 2000 and now accounts for 30 percent of the planet’s population.
Sweeping across the continents, Asia holds 922 million Internet users, Europe has 476 million, and North America is in third place with 271 million. Drilling down to individual countries, China is on top with 485 million people using the Internet, more than 36 percent of its total population.
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Posted in Cool Ideas, World Events by Ken Taylor
