Monday, January 26, 2009

The number of web users has exceeded 1 billion

comScore released its press release, which sums up the growing number of Internet users in 2008. It turns out that as early as December 2008, the number of web users has exceeded one billion people.

Of course, most internet user is from China - nearly 179 million people. After China in second place in the U.S. with 163 million Internet users. Unfortunately, in Russia this figure is much lower at only 29 million users.

ComScore data suggests that while in the Asian region had the highest number of Internet users, and it most likely long-term trend. By the way, namely in the Asia-Pacific region has 416 million users of the global network. Currently in Europe the figure is 282 million people, while in North America - more than 185 million.

Interestingly, now the most popular among internetchikov enjoy media. This trend is due to increased interest by users to information on the financial crisis, as well as the energy crisis.