N. American online population falls to #3 behind Europe and Asia/Australia
From Vin Crosbie on Poynter.org some stats on the world's online population:
ComputerScope Limited's Nua Internet Surveys, which for years has been compiling Internet population figures, reports that out of 605.6 million Internet users worldwide, 190.91 million are European, 187.24 million are in Asia or Australia, and 182.67 million are American or Canadian. Indeed, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) reported that its national population of Internet users almost doubled during 2002 to 58 million people. At that rate, Asians should be the largest online population by the end of this year.