Thursday 31 January 2013

World Internet Penetration From 2000 to 2012

Hi guys,

Its been a while since our last posting, we were quite busy for the new year so it was kinda slow for us to find some good Viz to share with you. While lurking around the interweb I've found this very good gem of information about how the internet population have grown since 2000. Represented in the Viz below, it is an eye opener especially when considering how much the internet has grown in Africa compared to Asia. While Asia having the most population, and supposedly bloomed the Internet for the past decade, its the Africans and the Middle Easterners who have taken into Internet by storm with over 2000% growth now thats a lot. Kinda explained why my mailbox is flooded with those Nigerian scams by the minute :p (no offence to my Nigerian friends). In Asia, take a look at Afghanistan for example, a 12000% growth which undoubtedly caused by the American occupation vs North Korea which unfortunately is still trying hard to get out of the stone age. IMHO, that 111% growth would just have come up from the families of the party leaders.

For Facebook fans, surprise-surprise, Mongolia's penetration is 129% which means that all of the population has a facebook account plus some dead ones, or they have this crazy hobby of making 2-3 facebook accounts for fun. Have a look at the Viz below and do give comments :)

-Zan