Today Internet World Stats release its latest numbers for global internet users (at the end of 2013). According to the numbers, 39% of the world’s population was online at the end of last year.
North America, the leading region in the world when it comes to online penetration, had 85% of its population going online at the end of 2013 while 69% of Europeans went online.
The figures also clearly show that Scandinavia has among the highest online penetration in the world – over 90% in all three Scandinavian countries. The only other mainstream technologies that have managed to reach such high penetration levels before are television and telephony.
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World Regions
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Population
|
Online Users
|
Penetration %
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AFRICA
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1,125,721,038
|
240,146,482
|
21.3 %
|
|
ASIA
|
3,996,408,007
|
1,265,143,702
|
31.7 %
|
|
EUROPE
|
825,802,657
|
566,261,317
|
68.6 %
|
|
MIDDLE EAST
|
231,062,860
|
103,829,614
|
44.9 %
|
|
NORTH AMERICA
|
353,860,227
|
300,287,577
|
84.9 %
|
|
CENTRAL AMERICA
|
164,210,961
|
63,090,687
|
38.4 %
|
|
SOUTH AMERICA
|
406,194,811
|
222,334,228
|
54.7 %
|
|
THE CARIBBEAN
|
41,873,409
|
16,581,101
|
39.6 %
|
|
OCEANIA / AUSTRALIA
|
36,724,649
|
24,804,226
|
67.5 %
|
|
WORLD TOTAL
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7,181,858,619
|
2,802,478,934
|
39.0 %
|
Source: Internet World Stats, data accessed on August 15, 2014.
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