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Roughly 68% of the U.S. population is online

Worldwide Internet Population 2005: 1.08 billion (Computer Industry Almanac)

Projection for 2010: 1.8 billion (Computer Industry Almanac)

Global Online Populations

NationPopulation (CIA's WorldFactbook)

Internet Users (CIA's WorldFactbook)

Active Users(Nielsen//NetRatings)

ISPs (CIA's WorldFactbook)

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United States 298.44 million 203.82 million 143.43 million 195.14 million Read more

United Kingdom 60.61 million 37.80 million 24.36 million 4.69 million Read more

Israel 6.35 million 3.2 million 976,000 1.07 million Read more

China 1.31 billion 111 million NA 187,508 Read more

• 62 million U.S. households, or 55 percent of all American homes, had a Web-connected computer in 2003, according to U.S. Census data. That's up from 50% in 2001, and more than triple 1997's 18 percent figure.

• Nearly all households earning over $100,000 – 95% -- own at least one computer, and 92% are online. In homes earning under $40,000, the online figure plummets to 41 percent. Home Web use continues to skew toward more affluent, younger and educated demographics.

• Homes in the West are the most wired at 67%, closely followed by the Northeast and Midwest. Southern households had the lowest percentage of online computers at 52 percent.

• In 1997, only 7% of adults said they used the Web to get news, weather and spots. That figure spiked to 40% in 2003.

Who is using the Internet and Why?

Oct 2005 Data reported by ClickZ Network

• Those seeking government or health information grew to 33% from 12% in 1997, and over half (55%) used the Web for email and instant messaging, up from just 12% 10 years earlier.

• 18% banked online; 12% looked for a job; almost 50% sought product and/or service information and 32% purchased online, a radical jump over 2.1% in 1993.

• eBay has over 1.1 million registered users in the state of Alabama. 2,700 of those users qualify as Top Sellers. Top Sellers are members of the eBay community who sell over $1,000 worth of merchandise or services each month. eBay users worldwide trade more than $1,640 worth of goods on the site every second.

• Of the 45% of households without Web access in 2003, the most common reasons given were: "don't need it/not interested (39%); and costs too much" or "no computer/computer inadequate" (each 23%). *

* Issues of privacy, child safety and security concerns were rarely cited, each accounting for only 1% of the reasons.

• Children have benefited enormously from the growth of home computing. In 1993, only 32% of children had access to a computer at home. In 2003, 76% of school aged children had access to a home computer, and 83% of America's 57 million schoolchildren used a PC at school.

  

Oct 2005 Data reported by ClickZ Network

“If your company does not show up on the first three pages of the search results generatedby major search engines, you might as well be doing business on the far side of the moon.”

Jupiter Research Apr 2006

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Message from Steve SiemensKiwanis International President

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