Internet Population Grows to 2.4 Billion People

[Guest]

According to updated Internet population numbers released by Internet World Stats, there are now 2,405,518,376 people connected to the Web.

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[wanderer11]

Monaco has 100.6% penetration rates?

 

[freggo]

Monaco (100.6 percent)

Got to love THG's articles.
The 0.6% in Monaco are prob. unborn children whose heart rate monitor has a Facebook page making them countable...

 

[colaturka]

love it how people exactly comment about the thing I hope they would comment on

 

[applegetsmelaid]

Greenland huh? I always thought Apple users had the highest penetration rate ;-)

 

[Guest]

the extra 0.6% is probably from visitors or tourists in Monaco. Use your brain before put in stupid comments

 

[steelbox]

abc77 read carefuly now that i made it easier to you "The lion's share of users resides in" and "For North America, 89.6 percent of Internet users live in". Do you know the meaning of live and reside? You can use you brain to comprehend things to you know.

 

[dozerman]

It's actually less than I would have guessed...

 

[sliem]

100.6%? How do they calculate penetration rate? Maybe the census is out of date.

 

[gm0n3y]

The US has an 89% internet usage rate? Who are those 11% of people not using the internet? Even my 90+ y/o grandparents use the internet regularly.

I guess there are always homeless people, babies, the blind, mentally handicapped, people in comas, Amish, and hunter-gathering natives. Wait, how is it that Monaco has none of those people and an additional 0.6% population?

 

[anxiousinfusion]

[citation][nom]sliem[/nom]100.6%? How do they calculate penetration rate? Maybe the census is out of date.[/citation]
Tourists?

 

[computernerdforlife]

100.6%: That must mean that there are more internet connections versus the amount of people actually there - woah! *mind blown*

 

[chewy1963]

In Monaco, even their Internet connections have Internet connections! :lol:

 

[Guest]

"The highest penetration rates can still be found in North America"
"Greenland has the highest penetration rate"
"The highest penetration rates can be found in Europe"

pschoooo

 

[Someone Somewhere]

How do they determine if a person is connected to the internet?

If I have both a DSL connection at home and mobile broadband on my smartphone do I count twice?

 

[skaniol]

The 0.6%+ are probably tourists and I am 100% sure that the entire population of Monaco (although a small one) is not using the internet. I don't know how this is calculated, but it would makes sense if they are distinguishing internet users from local population. It's possible to have more users, than population, simply by including the temporary visitors who use the net. Also, it's possible to have way lower percent of internet users in a place where 100% of the actual residents are using it, just because there are many "ghosts", who are counted as residents but live/are elsewhere and are counted there if they use the net (Monaco).

Anyway, whatever way they are using to calculate the internet population, it's probably not very accurate, but you get the bigger picture.

 

[eomcaleb]

100.6% penetration?
that's how I performed last night.