Indian online businesses can take heart from this news item. India has emerged as the fastest growing country of Internet users, surpassing the growth rates in the US, China, Japan, according to a survey by comScore Networks. The internet population in India grew at 33 per cent, while the world average was 10 per cent. India ranked eighth in terms of number of internet users as of January 2007.
There were 747 million people using internet in the world, according to comScore. India had over 21 million Internet users aged over 15 years at the end of January, as against below 16 million a year ago. The US has the largest internet population of 153 million, although the usage in the US grew only at 2 per cent. China has the second biggest Internet population with 86.8 million users, followed by Japan with 53.6 million, Germany (32 million) and the UK (30 million) in the top five.
India, though ranked eighth in number of users, can take heart from the fact that it’s ahead of countries like Canada, Italy, Brazil, Spain, Russia, the Netherlands and Mexico in internet population. However, India is not there in the top 10 countries in terms of average monthly hours online per unique visitor.
In terms of usage, Canada, Israel, and South Korea lead the list. Canada topped the list with the average user spending 39.6 hours (and 41.3 hours/ month
among broadband users) online during the month. In each of the top 10 countries, the time spent online by users with a broadband connection was substantially greater than the time spent by users with a narrowband connection, the survey noted. “We have all believed that ‘always-on’ broadband connections stimulate usage — this study empirically confirms that conclusion,” Bob Ivins, managing director, comScore Europe, said.
That will be the challenge for Indian policy makers. [The release here]
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