Worldwide Internet Use 1-1.5 Billion

The number of people on the Internet surpassed one billion in December, according to comScore. Internet World Stats counted nearly 1.5 billion Web surfers worldwide as of June 30, 2008. Between 15 and 22% of the world’s population is on the Internet.

Here is the breakdown by country and region, in unique visitors as of December, 2008:

Top 15 countries, by Internet population:

• China: 179.7 million
• United States: 163.3 million
• Japan: 60.0 million
• Germany: 37.0 million
• United Kingdom: 36.7 million
• France: 34.0 million
• India: 32.1 million
• Russia: 29.0 million
• Brazil: 27.7 million
• South Korea: 27.3 million
• Canada: 21.8 million
• Italy: 20.8 million
• Spain: 17.9 million
• Mexico: 12.5 million
• Netherlands: 11.8 million

Worldwide Internet Audience

• Asia Pacific: 416 million (41.3%)
• Europe: 283 million (28.0%)
• North America: 185 million (18.4%)
• Latin America: 75 million (7.4%)
• Middle East & Africa: 49 million (4.8%)

[via Techcrunch]