General
- Global Internet Statistics
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0% |
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0.3% |
1.4% |
4.0% |
7.4% |
10.7% |
- Worldwide Internet population grows slightly, NUA 8/16/02
- Report: Global Internet Growth Slowing, Newsfactor 8/16/02
- Global Internet audience increases, NUA 8/14/02
- Report: At-Home Web Population Keeps Growing (global), Newsfactor 5/10/02
- Global Net population increases, NUA 5/15/02
- Nua Internet Surveys: Global Internet audience increases March 19 2002
- Newsbytes: Net population to near 950 million by 2005 March 14, 2002
- UK web surfers increase, BBC 1/30/02
- Internet starts to Shrink, BBC 1/2/02
- Internet shrinks to fit, CNET 1/2/02
- ITU, Basic Indicators and Internet Indicators
| Region |
Tel Lines /100
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Tel Lines / 100
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PCs /100
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PCs / 100
2003 |
Internet users /10,000
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Internet users / 100
2003 |
Internet Access (20 hours / month) 2003 |
| Africa |
2.5 |
2.7 |
0.9 |
1.3 |
52.6 |
0.03 |
$60.09 |
| Americas |
35.2 |
34.8 |
24.3 |
29.0 |
1504.5 |
14.5 |
$31.39 |
| Asia |
9.8 |
11.7 |
2.9 |
4.6 |
324.5 |
0.4 |
$27.02 |
| Europe |
39.3 |
36.6 |
16.8 |
21.4 |
1264.3 |
2.3 |
$21.50 |
| Oceania |
40.5 |
39.1 |
42.1 |
42.4 |
2539.7 |
9.7 |
$39.84 |
| World |
17.2 |
17.1 |
8.4 |
10.2 |
820.8 |
9.9 |
Heather Hudson, Bridging the Broadband Divide: Strategies for Rural and Developing Regions, Sec. 1.1 TPRC 2003 (Citing ITU Julu 2001); Heather Hudson, Investing in Infrastructure: Increasing Internet Access in the Developing World, p. 2 TPRC 2004 (citing ITU Dec 2003)
- Ovum forecasts the Internet at 2006 Jan 2001
- The World's Online Populations Cyberatlas
- Cyberatlas Home Internet Access Pulls Ahead July 1999
- Summary of Internet Surveys 1996
- ITU Counting the Net: Internet Access Indicators Undated
- Andrew Odlyzko, Digital Technology Center, Internet traffic growth
- Inktomi WebMap finding over 1 billion webpages
- Websites World Wide Netcraft
- Internet Growth various data
- Europe
Internet Subscribers x 1000
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HH = Household :: U = Users
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