According to www.internetworldstats.com, the full number of Internet users worldwide as of February 2004 is 719.3 million. this can be approximately 11.1 percent of the whole world population of 6.45 billion.
IDC Research predicts that this number will exceed one billion users by the tip of 2005. The u. s. remains the country with the highest number of Internet users at 186.5 million, 63.3 percent of the total population of the country, which stands at 295.5 million. Asia ranks highest because the continent with the foremost number of Internet users with a complete of 229.82 million. North America is second at 203.38 million versus 203.28 million for Europe. Additionally, the countries with the best percentage of the population using the web include Sweden (76.9 percent), Netherlands (66.0 percent), and Australia(64.2 percent).
