1.8 Billion and growing

The world-wide economic crisis, or Great Recession, had no effect on Internet growth. On the contrary, we see growth in all parts of the world during year 2009.

The following table shows the estimated population for each geographic region, the number of Internet users, and the penetration rate (this term means the percentage of the population that uses the Internet) in each region.

From this table, the year 2009 ends with 1,802,330,108 Internet users. This represents a 26.6% penetration rate.

Source: http://www.InternetWorldStats.com estimates for December 31, 2009. Notes: a) Population data comes from the US Census Bureau; b) Internet estimates come from ITU, Nielsen Online, GfK, official telecommunications regulating agencies and other trustworthy sources; c) Mexico is included in Central America and Turkey is included in Europe, according to the United Nations grouping; d) P.R. means the Penetration Rate, in percentage.

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