It wants to be there, because China is home to the biggest internet population.
People aged over 55 now make up 17% of the UK internet population, a survey for consumer magazine Which?
China has the largest Internet population globally and is a significant market for mobile internet devices like iPads and iPhones.
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Some differences from the West's will fade as the industry and China's economy mature and the country's internet population grows older and richer.
And competition between Google, Facebook, Yahoo, fixed and mobile operators to seize control of the data opportunities of a global and very large customer base in mobile (at least 4 times the size of the fixed line internet population) is impacting on other sectors.
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Net Applications acknowledges that visitors to its customers' websites likely aren't representative of all Internet users, and weights the data by the population of Internet users world-wide, according to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook.
Only about a quarter of Japan's Internet-connected population, or 15 million people, visit Facebook.
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It also shows the growing impact and large potential of collaborative consumption companies, which are redefining the meaning of economic activity in a highly Internet-connected population where sharing and renting among peers in some cases replaces ownership and buying.
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To begin, in Norway, 94.8% of the population have Internet access (the highest), while Tanzania ranks lowest with 1.6%.
For the country's fast-growing population of Internet users (46m, according to an official estimate), it is proving an elusive creature.
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Currently, only 40% of the Chinese population accesses Internet through mobile phones and only 150 million of around 1.4 billion Chinese citizens have 3G connections.
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Facebook is under pressure to keep growing, but the company is rapidly approaching a saturation point with the adult population of Internet users in countries in many markets.
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China has the world's biggest population of Internet users, with 564 million people online at the end of 2012, according to an industry group, the China Internet Network Information Center.
The UK is still some way behind the US - where 50% of the population have home internet access - but the price war is encouraging more people to log on.
About 38% of the world's population uses the internet in 2013, up from about 35% last year, according to the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency dedicated to information and communication technology.
It is said a third of the world's population now uses the internet.
On a much lighter note, global high-speed broadband adoption (defined as any speed equal or greater than 10Mbps) grew by 2.7 percent last quarter, with top honors going to South Korea where nearly half the population enjoys super fast internet access.
Meanwhile, that Internet growth rolls on: Even though its online population is more than 338 million, three-quarters of the country has yet to use the Internet.
And only 10 percent of the population have access to the Internet.
Doddy says in many countries only 1% or 2% of the population have pay TV or Internet service, leaving plenty of room to expand.
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There are 70 million people with internet access in Brazil ( more than the total population of France or Italy).
Current Internet users still amount to a small fraction of the population.
According to research firm BDA, China has around 220 million Internet users--nearly three times Germany's entire population.
You simply cannot have industrial age lifestyles for 69% of the population, using too-clever arbitrage schemes involving Internet marketing of health-supplements.
This population will also be the next to be equipped with Internet technologies.
The number of Internet users represents 38.3% of the 1.3bn population.
There were 3 million internet users by June 2010, comprising around 66 per cent of the population (Internetworldstats.com).
The project addresses an unmet need for a population that exceeds 50 million, half of whom are regular Internet users, says RushmoreDrive CEO Johnny C.
According to figures by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Geografia, internet access in Mexico has risen from 2.7% of the population in 2000 to 29.4% in 2010, bringing over 32, 000, 000 million people online.
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