Do you know how many people use the Internet worldwide? It is about 1.6 billion people all over the world, out of the total world population of about 6.7 billion, i.e., about 24.7% people use the Internet. Region wise, Africa has the least penetration of Internet, only about 6.7% people use Internet, while North America has the highest level of penetration with about 73.9% of the total population using the Internet. If you look at the absolute numbers, Asia has the highest number of Internet users, about 42.2% of the total Internet users, i.e., about 704 million Internet users.
Have a look at the following table to give you idea about the Internet users in different regions of the world:
Also have a look at the following diagram to give an immediate idea of the region-wise distribution of Internet users in the world:
These figures are up to June, 2009. All these figure have been taken from Internet World Stats that updates the number of Internet users at regular intervals. You can visit this site for more detailed information, including country-wise details of Internet users. You can also get details of broadband users in a country, where such data is available.
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