According to Research and Markets and eMarketer.com,
the U.S. Internet population will grow to nearly 200 million users by
the end of 2009! eMarketer also projects that 221 million people in the
U.S. will be using the Web by 2013!
A Pew Internet
survey released in January 2009 found that 74% of adults in the U.S.
now use the Internet, and the demographic profile of the online
population has evolved to look more like the whole U.S. population,
spanning a diverse range of ages, ethnicities and income levels.
Jupiter Research
found that by 2012, one quarter of the world's population will access
the Internet regularly. The increase in emerging global markets will
grow at double-digit rates, boosting the growth of the global online
population.
ComScore
recently reported that the global Internet population has reached the 1
billion mark! And according to ComScore's Magid Abraham, the next
billion is right around the corner: "Surpassing one billion global users
is a significant landmark in the history of the Internet ... a monument
to the increasingly global community in which we live. The second
billion will be online before we know it, and the third billion will
arrive even faster than that."
