These articles demonstrate how small the internet is still in use. According to statistics internet penetration is at 16% which means out of 6.7 billion people living on the earth .96 billion people use the internet at all. Here are the statistics:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/world_internet_penetration_sept06.php
Interestingly North America has 5.1% of the world's population but 68.6% of the world's internet penetration, whereas Africa has 14.1% of the world's population but 2.6% of thw worldd's internet penetration. This goes to show that the internet is still and elitist activity. Not everyone can still participate in it. And the percentage of daily internet users is probably even smaller. Asia is constantly on the rise but even they with 56.4% of world pop. can only get about 10.4% of the internet penetration.
2 comments:
Wow, I'm kind of shocked it is only 16%. That just seems so small of a percentage.
Is this accurate?
Even so, roughly 1 billion people is no small amount. Don't forget that we've seen a population explosion within the past century... and roughly 200 years ago that number was roughly equivalent to the entire human race.
Internet penetration will continue to increase over the next 10 years.
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