One Billion Internet Users

The number of Internet users in the world officially passed 1 billion visitors in December 2008, according to a report from a group called ComScore.

Asia-Pacific Region Accounts for 41 Percent of Internet users and China Ranks as Largest Internet Population in the World.

Here are the stats:

Worldwide -- 1,007,730,000 -- 100.00%

China -- 197,719,000 -- 17.8 %

US -- 163,300,000 -- 16.2%

Japan -- 59,993,000 -- 6.0%

Germany -- 36,992,000 -- 3.7%

United Kingdom -- 36,664,000 -- 3.4%

France -- 34,010,000 -- 3.2%

India -- 32,099,000 -- 2.9%

Russia -- 28,998,000 -- 2.7%

South Korea -- 27,256,000 -- 2.7%

“Surpassing one billion global users is a significant landmark in the history of the Internet,” said Magid Abraham, President and Chief Executive Officer, comScore, Inc, in a recent press release. “It is a monument to the increasingly unified global community in which we live and reminds us that the world truly is becoming more flat. The second billion will be online before we know it, and the third billion will arrive even faster than that, until we have a truly global network of interconnected people and ideas that transcend borders and cultural boundaries.”