China has overtaken the United States in online presence as more Chinese citizens use the worldwide web. The largest country in terms of population is now also world’s largest Internet population. The China Internet Network Information Centre reported Friday that the country had 253 million netizens as of end of June, up by 56 percent from last year. In comparison, research company Nielsen Online reported 223.1 million Internet users in the U.S. in June.
However, China has only 19 percent of its population enjoying Internet access, far off from the U.S.’s 71 per cent and the global average of 21 percent. A majority of China’s cyber citizens are high school students at 39 million of the 43 million new netizens added in 2007. Ages below 30 comprise 69 percent of total web users. The government closely monitors the country’s Internet usage, however, online commerce, video sharing and other businesses among Chinese have been proliferating in the web.
Source: AHN
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