Report: Worldwide Internet Audience Grows 10% in Past Year

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 7, 2007 - 1:51pm.

Reston, Va. - About 747 million people over the age of 15 used the Internet worldwide in January, up 10% from the year before, according to new figures from comScore Networks.

Internet audiences in India, the Russian Federation and China increased the most in 2006, with China now boasting the second-largest Internet population in the world, following the U.S.

Domestically, the U.S. Internet population grew 2% to 153.4 million users.

"Internet users outside the U.S. now account for 80% of the world’s online population, with rapidly developing countries experiencing double-digit growth rates year-over-year," said Bob Ivins, the managing director of comScore Europe.