Now that we’ve established that the number of Internet users is more than five times as large as it was in 2000, how has that growth been distributed through the different regions of the world?īack in 2000, Asia, North America and Europe were almost on an even footing in terms of Internet users. Here’s another way to see how much things have changed: Countries with Thanks to this growth, there are now many more countries with a significant presence on the Internet. Note how much “thicker” the tail of the 2010 graph is. This becomes evident when viewing the distribution of Internet users for the top 50 countries in 2000 and in 2010.
There are more than five times as many Internet users now as there were in 2000. For perspective, that’s barely two-thirds of the size of Facebook today. There were only 361 million Internet users in 2000, in the entire world.
Here is how much the Internet has grown since the year 2000.
Worldwide Internet users, 20įirst off, the one thing you probably wanted to know right away. We’ll start with the whole world, then world regions, then break it down even further into countries. This article is an in-depth study of how the number of Internet users has grown in the past decade. You don’t actually realize how many more people are on the Internet now until you start comparing numbers. Since then people have welled onto the Internet. Ten years ago we were in the era of the dot-com boom (and bust), the Web was strictly 1.0, and Google was just a baby.
It doesn’t feel like 2000 was all that long ago, does it? But on the Internet, a decade is a long time.
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