China, India and Japan are the Fastest Growing Internet Countries (Asia-Pacific)
Categories: India Internet, Internet, Report
Written By: Vardaan
China, India & Japan constitutes the fastest growing countries of Internet population in Asia-Pacific region, with China being the home to largest Internet audience in the world. The study report released by Comscore Inc., measured internet population accessing web from a home or work location and excluding public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.
In September 2009, China with 220.8 million internet population showed a 31 percent increase, making it the fastest-growing Internet country in the region. Japan 68.3 million online population showed 18 percent increase, and India with 35.8 million users online showed 17 percent increase from last year, however when it comes to figure its just around 5k users increment in Indian online audience.
| Asia Pacific Region and Individual Country Growth by Unique Visitors
September 2009 vs. September 2008 Total Asia Pacific Internet Audience*, Age 15+ – Home & Work Locations |
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| Total Unique Visitors (000) | |||
| Sep-2008 | Sep-2009 | % Change | |
| Asia Pacific | 396,000 | 484,245 | 22 |
| China | 168,258 | 220,834 | 31 |
| Japan | 57,933 | 68,319 | 18 |
| India | 30,719 | 35,810 | 17 |
| South Korea | 26,656 | 29,197 | 10 |
| Australia | 11,369 | 12,746 | 12 |
| Taiwan | 10,619 | 12,060 | 14 |
| Malaysia | 8,680 | 9,401 | 8 |
| Hong Kong | 3,762 | 3,939 | 5 |
| Singapore | 2,388 | 2,725 | 14 |
| New Zealand | 2,277 | 2,618 | 15 |
Source: Comscore, Inc. (Stats excludes public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs)
Asia have largest Internet population in the world and fastest-growing as well. Noticeably, these three countries – China, Japan and India outrun all other prominent countries in Asia-pacific region which believed to be much superior in technology advancements including ‘Web & Internet’ such as Australia, South Korea, Singapore and Japan being much smaller in geographical area in comparison to Australia & India is second on the list just after China.









