Updated for 2011:Top 20 countries with the largest

number of people using the internet

Helen Milner Slides: 27 Oct 2011

June 2011 data from: http://www.internetworldstats.com/top20.htm

2,110,764,630Number of people who use the

internet in June 2011

June 2011 data from: http://www.internetworldstats.com

Looking at absolute numbers of people using the internet by country

• China has the most people who use the internet of any single country: 485,000,000 (up from 430,000,000 in 2010)– That increase is more than all the users in UK

• The UK has the 8th most people who use the internet: 51,442,100

• 76% of the world internet users live in 20 countries

June 2011 data from: http://www.internetworldstats.com/top20.htm

June 2011 data from: http://www.internetworldstats.com/top20.htm

The top 20 countries by the total number of internet users (2011)

Top 20 countries by % of their population online (2011)

June 2011 data from: http://www.internetworldstats.com/top20.htm

Internet use by % of population2011 compared to 2010 & 2007

2007 Source: http://www.internetworldstats.com/topusage.htm

UK highest penetration

UK top of top 20 digital nations• In 2007 UK (62.3%) is behind USA (68.7%), Japan

(67.1%), and South Korea (66.5%)• In 2011 UK has the highest penetration of

population of internet users– NOTE: Based on the top 20 countries where

76% of world’s internet users live• China has moved from 12% (in 2007) to 36% (in

2011) of their population are internet users• Vietnam replaced Canada as the 20th nation with

the most internet users

Countries with a higher than UK % of population as internet users

June 2011 data from: http://www.internetworldstats.com

Countries with higher % of users – by number of internet users

A bit more data for the smaller countries% of Pop who are users No of internet users

Monaco 97.6% 29,820

Iceland 97% 301,600

Norway 94.4% 4,431,100

Falkland Islands 92.7% 2,360

Sweden 92.4% 8,397,900

Greenland 90.2% 52,000

St Lucia 88.5% 142,900

Netherlands 88.3% 14,872,200

Bahrain 88% 649,300

Denmark 85.9 4,750,500

Finland 85.2 4,480,900

Luxembourg 84.3 424,500

New Zealand 83.9 3,600,00

UK 82.5 51,442,100

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