90% Of Internet Users Live In Non-English Speaking Countries

90% Of Internet Users Live In Non-English Speaking Countries.

It took the 30 years to get one billion people online, but the speed at which the internet has developed means that it now takes just over 4 years to add a billion people to the ever widening base of internet users.

This of course is classic Moore’s Law at work and highlights the potential of where this thing is destined to take us. America has just over 300 million people and more than 70% of those people are connected to the internet. This means of course that the billions that are being added are coming not from English speaking countries like the US, but from non-English speaking countries.

A new set of data presented by Smartling, an enterprise translation company; estimates that a whopping 90% of internet users now live in non-English speaking countries. This is a stark contrast to the estimated 13% which accounts for internet user representation on the North American continent.

Asia accounts for 45% of all internet users and most of the people in China are not yet connected. When this happens, the total representation for Asia will grow dramatically. And as goes China so too goes India, which at present has a growing IT sector. Many are predicting that once the internet boom in India filters down to the masses, Asia will absolutely dominate internet connectivity.

via: sitetrail