How Many People In the World Use the Internet and How Many Internet Users Are there In the United States?
One estimate is that 600 million people in the world were using the Internet by 2002.
In 2001, there were just 500 million users worldwide.
The United States led in total number, with about 4 of every 10 people using the Internet.
But as a percentage of the total population, more people in Canada, Sweden, and Finland log on to the Net than in the United States.
The current estimate is that 1.9 billion people in the world used the Internet in 2010, or in other words, 29% of the world’s population.
There are about 239 million Internet users in the United States, which is 77% of the population.
According to a 2003 study by Peninsula Business Services, the average UK employee spent 57 minutes a day surfing the Web while at work.