By A Bisht
In September 2009, the Internet population in the Asia-Pacific region reached 484 million, an increase of 22 percent from the previous year. With this the region now accounts for 41 percent of the total 1.2 billion global Internet audience.
With China, Japan and India fuel the growth in the region, most individual countries in the region experiencing double-digit growth rates.
The internet population in Sep 2009, in various nations of the region:
China______________220.8 million (largest internet population in the world)
Japan_____________ 68.3 million
India______________ 35.8 million
South Korea________29.1 million
Australia___________12.7 million
Taiwan____________12 million
Malaysia__________ 9.4 million
Hong Kong________ 3.9 million
Singapore_________2.7 million
New Zealand______2.6 million
Growth in internet users vs. last year in nations of the region:
China______________31 percent (the fastest-growing Internet country in the region)
Japan_____________ 18 percent
India______________ 17 percent
South Korea________10 percent
Australia___________12 percent
Taiwan____________14 percent
Malaysia__________8 percent
Hong Kong________5 percent
Singapore_________14 percent
New Zealand______15 percent
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