BY Goutama Bachtiar
NOVEMBER 30, 2011Box
The world is home to seven billion people, one third of which are using the Internet. Over the last five years, developing countries have increased their share of the world’s total number of Internet users from 44 percent in 2006, to 62 percent in 2011. Internet user penetration in Asia and the Pacific grew from 3.3 percent in 2000 to 22.5 percent in 2010, bringing it close to the Internet user penetration in Europe nine years earlier (23 percent). By 2010, Internet user penetration in Europe had grown to 67 percent. All the statistics disclosed are based on ITU’s reports.
