Visualizing Internet penetration per country 1991-2010 (animation)
Posted in Main on December 27th, 2011 by Pingdom
With an estimated 2 billion Internet users as of March 2011, about a third of the world’s population is online. That still leaves almost 5 billion people around the world that are not connected, a huge potential for the coming years.
But things are developing fast. For most of us, an Internet connection at home and at work is something we’ve had for perhaps 15 years by now.
To better understand how fast it has developed, we used data from the World Bank to visualize Internet adoption over the past 20 years. Read on to find out what it looks like.
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The world isn’t a fair place, and yet another way this is laid bare is the huge differences shown in Internet penetration among the population of the various world regions. We thought it would be interesting to see what kind of an effect this is having on the world Internet population of today.
