comScore Networks released a report saying that 747 million people (over the age of 15) used the Internet worldwide in January 2007. That’s a 10% increase from January 2006.
Interestingly, countries in the Russian Federation, India and China saw the fastest growth in 2006.
The U.S. has 153.4 million users, while number two is China now has the second-largest Internet population in the world, with 86.8 million users, after the U.S., which rose 2 percent year-over-year to 153.4 million users age 15 or older in January 2007.
Another interesting factoid from Comscore: Canada was number one in terms of average hours online per visitor, at 39.6 hours. Broadband Canadian users were slightly higher at 41.3 hours per month. One blogger says it’s the cold Canadian nights… hmm possible.
As one of the Comscore’s representatives said “broadband connections stimulate usage”.
[Via Press Release]
