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General

• Current Population Reports, Special Studies, Computer and Internet Use in the United States: 2003, CENSUS 10/28/2005
• Internet traffic growth: Sources and implications, A. M. Odlyzko, Odlyzko 6/19/03
• Host Counts
• ISC Domain Name Survey
• RIPE NCC Internet Statistics (host count)
• CAIDA:  Internet Measurement: Myths about Internet data (5 dec 01)
• Myth: Host pairs relative to bandwidth
• Myth: traffic doubling every 90 days
• US Internet Council,
• United States Internet Council & ITTA Inc. State of the Internet 2000
• State of the Internet: USIC's Report on Use & Threats in 1999
• Global Internet Statistics
• World Bank Data and Statistics
• Central America and Latin America Institute for Connectivity in the Americas
• CIA Fact Book
  • Field Listings ISPs
  • Internet Users
  • Internet Hosts
• Home Web Use by Country, December 2004, clickz 2/8/2005
• Worldwide Broadband Adoption, ITU Internet Reports 2003: Birth of Broadband
• Broadband as a percent of Internet Users Worldwide

• ITU
  • Internet indicators: Hosts, Users and Number of PCs 2001 | 2002 | 2003
  • ITU Report: The Portable Internet 2004
• Internet World Statistics
• UCLA World Internet Project Report, UCLA 2/18/2004 PPT
• Active Internet Users by Country, August 2004, Clickz 9/24/2004
• Web Becomes Truly World-Wide, PCWorld 11/20/02
• UN Conference on Trade and Development Ecommerce and Development Report 2002  page 4 (Internet Users by Country 2001 and 2000) (page 5 Internet users by region)
• Internet booms despite economic woes, South China 11/20/02
• More than 600 million people have Net access NUA 11/3/02
• Telegeography, Packet Geography 2002 Global Internet Statistics and Commentary
• Maps and Schematics
• Directories
• 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 2001	Tel Lines / 100 2003	PCs /100 2001	PCs / 100 2003	Internet users /10,000 2001	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
• EU Info Society Internet Adoption in Europe 2000-2002
• EU Info Society Internet access in EU households
• EU Info Society Internet access in EU households 2000-2002

Internet Subscribers x 1000

Country	2000	2001	2003	2004
Argentina	2,500
Australia			5,210
Barbados	10
Bangladesh
Bhutan				2
Canada		6505 HH
China				79,500
France		7448 HH
Germany		14,858 HH
Hong Kong		1241 HH
India				3,750
Indonesia				7,550
Iran				4,600
Japan		21,497 HH		69,420 u
Korea, S		8,265 HH	28,610 u
Lao				3
Malaysia			2,897
Maldives				1
Micronesia				2
Mongolia				46
Netherlands		4196 HH
New Zealand				700
Palau				1
Philippines				2,300
Samoa				3
Singapore				1,807
Sri Lanka				75
Sweden		2546 HH
Taiwan		2604 HH
Tonga				2
United States
Vietnam				868

HH = Household :: U = Users

Sources:

• APT Yearbook 2004.
• Scott Wallsten, Regulation and Internet Use in Developing Countries (Draft Dec. 2002)
• Technology Administration, Department of Commerce, Understanding Broadband Depand, A Review of Critical Issues , page 5 (Sept 23, 2002)
• ITU, Internet indicators: Hosts, Users and Number of PCs 2001 | 2002 | 2003
• Global Online Populations, Clickz 2004

Global Broadband

	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
% Net Subs Using Broadband Int'l ITU	0	0	0	0.3	1.4	4	7.4	10.7

• OECD Broadband Statistics, December 2005
• World Broadband Statistics: Q4 2005, Point Topic Ltd (March 2006)
• World broadband maps Q4 2005 April 2006 Point Topic
• China to Top U.S. in Broadband Subscribers, Americas Network 5/17/2005
• Global Broadband Tops 123M, Clickz 9/21/2004
• See OECD statistics
• FCC Fourth Sec. 706 Report (Sept. 2004)
  • In terms of absolute numbers of broadband subscribers, the U.S. leads the world. In terms of residential broadband penetration (number of subscribers per 100 people), however, the ITU’s 2003 Birth of Broadband Report ranked the U.S. eleventh in 2002 [p.41]
  • [p.40]

ITU: Birth of Broadband, ITU Internet Report, (Sept 2003) Figure 1.3 page 3

• Broadband Adoption Rates Around the World
• Broadband adoption, subscribers per 100 inhabitatns, by technology, 2002
• Korea 21.3
• Hong Kong 14.9
• Canada 11.2
• Taiwan 9.4
• Denmark 8.6
• Belgium 8.4
• Iceland 8.4
• Sweden 7.8
• Netherlands  7.2
• Japan  7.1
• United States 6.9
• Austria  6.6
• Switzerland  6.3
• Singapore 5.5
• Finland  5.3
• Birth of Broadband, ITU Internet Report, (Sept 2003) Figure 1.1, page 1
• OECD, ICCP Broadband Update (Oct. 2003)
• International Broadband Penetration as of Dec 2001

Country	Broadband Households (in thousands)	Broadband As  % if Total  Households	Internet Households (in thousands)	Internet As % Of total Households
United States	11,200	10.4	56,376	52.3
South Korea	7500	51.7	8265	57.0
Japan	2570	5.8	21497	48.2
Canada	2300	19.7	6505	55.6
Germany	2090	5.4	14,858	39.1
Taiwan	1125	18.2	2604	42.0
France	605	2.5	7448	30.4
Netherlands	550	8.1	4196	61.7
Hong Kong	545	26.0	1241	59.1
Sweden	542	13.4	2546	62.1

Technology Administration, Department of Commerce, Understanding Broadband Depand, A Review of Critical Issues , page 5 (Sept 23, 2002)

• World Broadband Subscribers RHK Inc. www.rhk.com 4Q 2003
• Cable: 32,857,000 - DSL: 65,714,000 - Other: 1,377,000

• AccuStream iMedia Research 
• Arbitron
• Business Week Online
• CIA The World Factbook 2001 (includes stats on number of ISPs in a country and number of Internet users)
• Computer almanac
• comScore Media Metrix
• CTIA Research & Statistics
• Cyberatlas
• Department of Eduction
• Domain Stats
• EBrain
• E-Marketer
• EU Info Society
• FCC 706 Broadband Deployment
• FCC Statistics
• FedStats.gov
• Gartner Group
• Google
• Internet Economy Indicators
• Internet Statistics
• Internet World Statistics
• ISOC Links to Internet Statistics
• Ipsos Reid US Internet Fact Page

• MIT Internet Statistics
• National Telecom and Information Agency: Digital Divide (see Falling through the Net Report)
• Neilson NetRatings
• Netcraft Web Server Survey
• NetValley: Growth of the Internet: Statistics
• NUA Internet Surveys
• OECD Telecommunications and Internet Policy, Statistics
• Data and Indicators 
• Statistics.com
• Strategis Group
• Telegeography
• TNS Telecoms
• Twice Statistics
• Yankee Group
• University of Michigan Document Center
• Walker: How Big is the Internet
• World Bank Data and Statistics