Statistics
…facts and figures about our online community.
1. Seven in ten people globally believe the Internet has improved their relationships.
2. Sixty-seven percent of Indians, 68 percent of Italians and 72 percent of Japanese shun antivirus software.
3. Two out of ten people globally browse unsafely.
5. Internet access is more important than cars of digital music players according to adults.
5. Adults would give up their cars or digital music players before giving up Internet access.
6. Forty-three percent of adults use Instant Messaging to talk to their parents.
7. Twenty percent of kids have endured an entire media free day in their lives.
8. One in six adults think kids are online too much.
9. Online responsibility is that of the parents’ according to 90 percent of parents.
10. One in three kids believe touchy subjects are easier to approach online.
11. Out of all worldwide kids 11 percent ignore family emails.
12. Almost three quarters of US web users are online now.
13. Around a fifth of global users are online now.
14. In 2008, 210 billion emails were sent daily.
15. The internet holds 1.46 billion internet users.
16. One hundred seventy-four domain names exist at the moment.
17. Ten billion photos exist on Facebook at present.
18. One million viruses exist on the internet.
19. Of all emails, around 70 percent are junk mail.
20. Dominating the market at 77.5 percent Google remains the most visited search engine.
21. Google users consist ten percent of kids (under-15).
22. Of all US teens around 41 per cent think their parents have no idea what they do online.
23. Seventy-six percent of US teens constantly or frequently browse the web.
24. Around 84 per cent of young Germans aged 19 -29 revealed that they would rather pass up the partners or cars than lose their internet connection.
25. Seventy-five percent of Swedish people go online..
26. There are eight billion pages in Google’s index.
27. Of all web users 35.6 percent are Asian.
28. Around 56 percent of Europeans frequently use the internet.
29. Online profiles are nurtured by 62 percent of e-families, compared to 49 percent in general.
30. Children browse the internet around 39 hours a month.
31. Kids are online two times as much as their parents believe they are.
32. Twenty percent of children have been caught breaking web browsing rules.
33. Of all children 70 percent have internet conduct rules.
34. Almost 50 percent of adults visit dangerous websites.
35. Nine out of ten adults and 89 percent of kids think the internet is more useful than harmful.
36. Men are more likely to criticise other people online than women.
37. Of all global online parents 82 percent are convinced that the internet has made learning easier for their kids.
38. Forty-two percent of all people online use webcams.
39. Almost 50 percent of British people admitted to not being able to live without internet.
40. In the UK, 81 percent of parents say they know what their children are doing online, whereas only 69 percent of children agree.