According to the report by Jupiter Research, the total number of people online will climb to 1.8 billion by 2012, encompassing roughly 25 percent of the planet.
The company sees the highest growth rates in areas such as China, Russia, India and Brazil. Overall, the number of users online is predicted to grow by 44 percent in the time period between 2007 and 2012.
"Even though the emerging economies will have lower online penetration rates compared to the developed countries, Jupiter Research believes that they will ramp up the learning curve in adopting sophisticated online activities compared to the developing countries," said research director Vikram Sehgal.
1.8 billion Internet users by 2012
Posted on Tuesday, July 01 2008 @ 6:35 CEST by Thomas De MaesschalckA new report by Jupiter Research says a quarter of the world will have access to the Internet by 2012:
