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The Internet is Big Business

It's been 40 years since the internet and my how it has changed.

We use it at home, work from our phones and laptops; but just how is Australia doing in the internet stakes.

How we size up

According to IWS, the top 5 countries with the most internet users are:

1 - China (298,000,000 users, or 22.4% of their population)
2 – US (227,190,989, or 74.7%)
3 – Japan (94,000,000, or 73.8%)
4 – India (81,000,000, or 7.1%)
5 – Brazil (67,510,400, or 34.4%)

 

Australia comes in at 25th, with 16,926,015 internet users.

 

But we zoom all the way up to 7th place if we measure what percentage of the population uses the internet – a whopping 80.6 per cent, according to IWS.



Read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/features/how-big-is-the-internet/story-fn300p73-1225756365579

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