INTERNET 2014 USER STATISTICS

The following table below shows the growth in Internet users between 2000 and 2014 (mid-year) for the main seven World Geographic Regions. It is interesting to see that the growth rate has been very different for the various languages. Most impressive is the very high growth rate for Africa and the Middle East.

World Regions	Internet Users 2000	Internet Users 2014	Growth % 2000-2014
AFRICA	4,514,400	297,885,898	6,498.6 %
ASIA	114,304,000	1,386,188,112	1,112.7 %
EUROPE	105,096,093	582,441,059	454.2 %
MIDDLE EAST	3,284,800	111,809,510	3,303.8 %
NORTH AMERICA	108,096,800	310,322,257	187.1 %
LAT AM / CARIB	18,068,919	320,312,562	1,672.7 %
OCEANIA / AUSTRALIA	7,620,480	26,789,942	251.6 %
TOTAL WORLD	360,985,492	3,035,749,340	741.0 %
Source: Internet World Stats, data accessed on December 2, 2014.

Reaching three billion Internet users is indeed a special occasion. Some of you will recall that in the IWS Newsletter No.014 we announced the First Billion Internet users back in December, 2005. You can see more Internet Growth data by visiting this page.