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Internet User Forecast by Country 2010
Computer Industry Almanac Inc, July 2010
The Internet began as a university research project in 1969 and was funded by ARPA—a U.S. military research organization. For the next 20 years the Internet and its predecessor, the ARPANET, existed mostly in obscurity. It was primarily a network for government and academic researchers during this timeframe. The defining event of the Internet happened in 1989 when Tim Berners-Lee proposed the World Wide Web. A year later the web became a reality when the first primitive web browser was implemented. The release of the free Mosaic browser in 1993 and the Netscape browser in 1994 allowed millions of PCs already in use to quickly and inexpensively get on the Internet.
At the end of 1989, there were 1.1M Internet users worldwide and about 86% were in the U.S. In the 1990s the worldwide number of Internet users grew 250-fold to over 290M for a compound annual growth rate of over 74%. The growth in the number of U.S. Internet users is slowing due to the high level of penetration. The worldwide number will grow at a stronger rate due to low penetration levels in many regions. The next table summarizes the growth in U.S. and worldwide Internet users over the last 20 years.
At the end of 2000 the U.S. had nearly 135M Internet users. Between 1990 and 1995 the compound annual growth rate of U.S. Internet users was over 73% and slowed to 36% between 1995 and 2000. From 2000 to 2005 the U.S. number of Internet users grew by 8% and will grow by less than 6% per year between 2005 and 2010.
The worldwide number of Internet users zoomed from 2.1M at year-end 1990 to over 45M in 1995, which is a compound annual growth rate of over 84%. From 1995 to 2000 the compound annual growth rate slowed to 56% and to less than 21% between 2000 and 2005. For the next five years the worldwide number of Internet users is forecasted to grow by less than 11% per year.
The next figure shows the growth of Internet users for the main regions of the world. Six regions and the U.S. Internet user totals are listed in the bar graph. The estimates show that Asia Pacific became the largest region with 193M Internet users in 2001, which will grow to over 1.2B Internet users in 2014. Western Europe with 355M Internet users in 2014 will also top the 284M Internet users forecasted for the U.S. The Middle East/Africa region will have the strongest Internet user growth at over 208M in 2014, from 108M in 2008 and from less than 13M Internet users in 2000.
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- Population
- Computers-in-use
- Computers-in-use growth
- Computers-in-use share
- Computers-in-use per 1,000 people
- Internet hosts
- Internet host growth
- Internet host share
- Internet hosts per 1,000 people
- Internet users
- Internet user growth
- Internet user share
- Internet users per 1,000 people
- Weekly Internet users
- Weekly Internet user growth
- Weekly Internet user share
- Weekly Internet users per 1,000 people
Regions
- North America
- South/Central America
- W. Europe
- E. Europe
- Middle East/Africa
- Asia/Pacific
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