Chad Clark's Open Journal : 2008-04-24
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April 24, 2008 :
1) China has the most internet users by country.
The AFP article reads:
China's online population has become the largest in the world after it
reached 221 million in February, outnumbering Internet users in the
United States, state media reported on Thursday.
The figure was reported by Xinhua news agency, quoting the Ministry of
Information Industry, but AFP was not able to independently confirm the
data.
It represents a marked increase from the end of 2007, when the number of
online users stood at 210 million, just five million less than the US,
according to figures released by the China Internet Network Information
Centre.
BDA China, a Beijing-based research firm, last month also said China had
overtaken the US in the number of web surfers, and was expected to have
280 million Internet users by the end of the year.
"Despite rapidly increasing the Internet population, the proportion of
Internet users among the total population is still lower than the global
average level," Xinhua news agency said, quoting the ministry.
The proportion came to 16 percent at the end of 2007, compared with a
world average of 19.1 percent, the news agency said.
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