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Internet World Stats > Oceania > Australia
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Australia
Internet Usage Stats
and Telecommunications Market Report
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Internet Usage Statistics:
15,300,000
Internet users as of Dec./2007, 74.3% of the population,
according to ITU.
Internet Broadband Subscribers:
4,700,200
Broadband subscribers (connections) as of Sept./07, 22.8% of the population,
according to OECD.
Latest Population
Estimate:
20,600,856
population for 2008, according to Census Bureau.
Gross National
Income:
GNI per
capita is US$ 21,650 ('04) according to
World Bank.
Australia
Country Area and Maps:
7,682,557 sq
km - see Australia
maps.
Australian
Statistics and Links:
National Library of Australia
Statistics.
Internet Growth and
Population Statistics:
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YEAR
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Users
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Population
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% Pop.
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G.N.I.
p.c.
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Usage
Source
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2000
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6,600,000
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19,521,900
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33.8 %
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$25,430 ('00)
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ITU
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2007
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14,729,191
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20,434,176
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70.2 %
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$21,650 ('06)
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Nielsen//NetRatings
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2008
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15,300,000
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20,600,856
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74.3 %
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$32,220 ('06)
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ITU
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G.N.I.p.c. = Per Capita Gross
National Income in US dollars, historic
series.
Search Engines
and Directories:
Please see
below.
Demographic
data:
Please see
below.
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Australia Internet Usage, Broadband
and Market Reports
Definitions
‘Dial-up’ or ‘narrowband’ Internet
access is used in this brief for access speeds up to and
including 128 kilobits per second (kbps).
'Broadband' is used in this brief to refer to higher bandwidth,
always-on services, offering data rates of 128 kbps and
above.
DSL Broadband Usage
‘DSL Forum’ and
‘Point Topic’ survey for 2004 third quarter indicates
Australia has 910,000 registered DSL Broadband
subscribers. Cable now holds a smaller share of the broadband
market.
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Internet Access
Lines in Australia in Sept.2004
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Dial-Up:
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658,555
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Non Dial-Up:
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1,300,359
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TOTAL Lines:
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1,958,914
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Source: ABS, 8153.0 Internet Activity, Australia.
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Internet
Activity Summary by states and territories -
Sep.2004
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Location
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ISP
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Access
Lines
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Subscribers
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New South Wales
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256
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667,338
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1,935,000
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Victoria
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213
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520,398
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1,565,000
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Queensland
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174
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347,658
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1,026,000
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South Australia
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61
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121,458
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413,000
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Western
Australia
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88
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199,435
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519,000
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Tasmania
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23
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36,999
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111,000
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Northern
Territory
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13
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11,633
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32,000
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Australian Capital
Territory
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34
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53,995
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1420,000
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All Australia
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687
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1,958,914
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5,741,000
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Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 8153.0 Internet
Activity.
Australian
Territories
Australian Territories information and links.
Guide to
Australia
Australian links to general facts and figures, geography,
culture, tourism, travel, government and history, presented by
the Charles Sturt University.
Australian Trade
Community
Australian Trade Community Site, featuring electronic
magazine
distributed to over 70,000 businesses worldwide, 8,000
Australian
exporters and over 10,000 thousand small businesses.
Budde Broadbanding Report -
Regional, Australia
All around the world countries are recognising the fact that
their national telecommunications infrastructure is vital to the
national interest – both socially and economically –
and, in light of this, governments are increasing their
involvement in telecommunications infrastructure. A large part of
this infrastructure exists as a natural monopoly, and government
policies and regulations need to be adjusted to reflect that
reality. Furthermore, a significant section – around a
third – of the infrastructure resides in areas where it
will not be economically viable to upgrade the existing
copper-based infrastructure to a fibre-based information highway.
It is important that governments take the lead in addressing this
issue. Paul Budde offers a wide selection of telecom market
reports.
More telecom reports available
here
Australia Search Engines and Directories:
(Arranged
in no particular order.)
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ALL OF AUSTRALIA
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English
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Australia Search
Engine and Directory
(Sacramento, California, USA)
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HITWISE
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English
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Here is a graphic
for understanding the way in which the Australian search engines
interact with each other. Click on links for search
engines.
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OPTUS NET
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English
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Australian
Directory and Search Engine.
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VIC NET
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English
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State of Victoria
search engine and directory.
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CLICK FOR
AUSTRALIA
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English
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Australia travel
related websites directory, only.
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EZILON
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English
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Australia and New
Zealand Search Engine and Directory (European search also
available.)
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GOOGLE
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English
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Australia's
websites and Google's general database! (Mountainview,
California, USA)
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HOWZAT
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English
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Australian search
engine
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SQUIZZ
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English
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Australian
Directory
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WEBWOMBAT
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English
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Australian search
engine (Melbourne, Victoria)
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LOOKSMART
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English
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Search from this
page is redirected to the new sensis.com.au search engine -
including Yellow Pages® and White Pages®
directories.
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SENSIS
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English
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Australia Search
Engine.
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MOOTER
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English
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Clustering Search
Engine, very fast.
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dmoz
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English
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Australia Open
Directory Project with over +35,653 links.
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WEST AUSTRALIA
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English
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Western
Australia's portal! (Perth, Western Australia)
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QUEENSLAND WEB
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English
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Queensland
websites (South Brisbane, Queensland)
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YAHOO!
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English
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Search Australia,
New Zealand, or Web in Yahoo!
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OZSEARCH
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Español
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Web directory of
categorised Australian web sites
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TASMANIA ON LINE
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English
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A comprehensive
listing of Tasmanian Government, business and community web
sites.
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WOTBOX
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English
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Searching
+189,523 Australian Pages, very fast.
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WOW
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English
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Word of Web
(WOW), a New Directory for Sydney, Melbourne, and Australian
locations.
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Australia Internet Demographic Information:
Population:
20,507,264
(2005 est.)
Age
structure:
0-14 years:
19.8% (male 2,116,875/female 1,943,563)
15-64 years:
67.2% (male 7,085,692/female 6,695,189)
65 years and
over: 12.9% (male 1,193,435/female 1,452,002) (2005
est.)
Median
age:
total: 36.56
years (2005 est.)
female: 37.4 years
male:
35.74 years
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