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Rameshjeee

Some Statistics about Internet Users in India

Number of Internet users in Asia is 5,29,701,704. Though Asia has only 16% of populations of the world, 37.6% of total internet users are Asian which is great. Of them around 60 million are from India. India is 3rd in Asia (1st is China (220 million) and 2nd is Japan (87.5 million)) and 4th in world ((1st is China (220 million), 2nd is USA (216 million) and 3rd is Japan (87.5 million)) as per as internet users are concerned.

India has 13% of internet users in Asia and 7.36% that of the world. But the sorrowful fact is only 5.3% of people in India use internet. The reason of this is most of the people in India don’t know computer. 70% of people who know computer have used internet which is a healthy sign.

Now, we will see mainly which age group and which type people use internet in India. 19-40 years age group is major section (85%) using internet in India. 85% of internet users in India are male which not a very good sign is. Among working women, only 11% use internet. The ratio is almost half (6%) in case of non-working women and even worst in case of house-wives (2%). The scenario is much better in case of young men (33%). Also 15% older men, 14% school going kids and 21% college students use internet in India. 46% of net users are graduate, 26% are post-graduate. Among these, 2/3 rd of user use internet 2-3 times a week. 62% uses internet from office as in most of the offices, it’s free.

Next, let us see from which cities most users come. Mumbai has the maximum number of internet users (3.24 million) in India followed by Delhi (2.66 million). The top ten cities where people use internets are Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai, Pune, Hydrabad, Ahmedabad, Surat and Nagpur. The total numbers of internet users of those 10 cities are 37% of the total numbers of internet users in India.

Now take a look which types of sites majority of users browse. Most of the users use net for emailing (95%) which is obvious. Next is job searching (73%) showing crisis of getting job in India followed by chatting sites (62%), social networking sites (51%) and quite interestingly mathematical sites (48%).

The top ten sites internet users browse in India are the following:

1. Yahoo
2. Google India
3. Google
4. Orkut
5. Rediff
6. Youtube
7. Blogger.com
8. Windows Live
9. Rapid Share
10. Wikipedia

So, briefly this is the situation of internet users in India. Though internet ownership has seen growth of 32% compare to last year which is a delighting fact, there are some concerning factors too. Those are

• Only 5.3% people use internet in India which is very low.
  
• Most of the users are male (85%). The female percentage should increase.
  
• Maximum number of users is from top 10 cities (37%). So, the internet usage in urban areas is very less.

Most of the users are male (85%):
Thats the reason why we dont have much female participation in this forum.

Note: All statistics are up to 31st March, 2008

snaveen

Nice information thanks a lot

saurav_k

nice info ... thanks ...

smoothvibes

Great post rameshjee i really don't use yahoo, orkut, rediff, youtube, rapidshare but yes google is something my list as

Google
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Wiki & wordwebonline