Vietnam – one of top 20 countries for Internet users

Along with six other Asian countries, Vietnam has been listed among the top 20 countries in the world with the highest numbers of Internet users.

This is the result of a survey by Pingdom, which provides website and server supervising services to worldwide organizations and businesses.

According to the survey, “Internet World Status”, though the world’s population exceeds six billion, only 1.8 billion people have Internet access and only 32 countries have over 10 million Internet users.

Notably, the top ten countries account for 65 percent of the world’s total number of Internet users, with 1.17 billion. The Top 20 countries make up 1.47 billion users, or 82 percent.

India ranks second for population in the world and fourth Internet users, but only 6.9 percent use the Internet.

China ranks top worldwide for population and Internet users. This country’s Internet user numbers is double that of the US. The total Internet users of China and the US account for over half of total users in the top 15 countries.

In the top 20 are mainly developed countries like the UK (82.5 percent of population having access to Internet), South Korea (81.1 percent), Germany (79.1 percent), Japan (78.2 percent) and the US (76.3 percent).

Africa also has one representative in the top 20 – Nigeria, which ranks tenth. Asia has six representatives, including Vietnam at 20th, accounting for 35 percent of the world’s Internet users. Europe has five representatives, accounting for 25 percent.

Though English is the most used language on the Internet, there are only three English-speaking countries in the list: the US, the UK and Canada.

According to experts, India, China, Brazil, Vietnam, the Philippines and Russia are “fertile lands” for the development of Internet access in the next 5-10 years.

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