The world has 694 million people online

About 694 million people aged 15 and over worldwide are using the Internet, accounting for 14% of the population in this age group.

Source: AFP

These are figures that according to comScore Networks, which " first accurately calculated the size and behavior of global netizens ". The estimated 694 million figures were launched, after the company conducted exploration in a number of major, important markets such as the US, Western Europe, East Asia and even China and India.

" Today, netizens in the US account for less than a quarter of the total number of global Internet users, while 10 years ago, they accounted for two-thirds, " said Peter Daboll, president and chief executive officer. comScore Media Metrix said.

However, the United States is still the country with the most networked people with 152 million people, followed by China (72 million), Japan (52 million), Germany (32 million) and Britain (30 million).

Ranked sixth is South Korea (24.6 million), ahead of France (23.9 million), Canada (19 million), Italy (16.8 million) and India (16.7 million). In addition, in the Top 15, there are Brazil, South America countries are actively promoting open source, Spain, Netherlands, Russia and Australia.

What to do online?

One thing that is quite surprising when considering the amount of time spent wandering online, leading the list is not the US or South Korea - the country "connecting" the world but is . Israel.

The people of this country spend an average of 57.5 hours per month online, twice as much as the Americans. Korea ranked third, losing to Finland, but still surpassed the Netherlands and Taiwan.

According to comScores, these figures have shown a " high degree of connection to the Internet outside the US ". In fact, the country doesn't even make it into the Top 15 list in terms of the number of hours users roam the Net every month.

The most visited websites in the world are Microsoft's MSN with 538.6 million, followed by Google (485.8 million) and Yahoo (480.2 million).

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