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Monthly Newsletter - HTML Format
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Internet World Stats News
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Number 008 -
July, 2005
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Internet Growth 2000-2005
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Table of Contents
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Editorial
Hello and a great welcome to all
subscribers.
Retrieving Internet usage statistics is becoming more difficult
everyday. Updates take longer each day because of more users and
more access options to tally. We are waiting for new figures to
come in from the field and will let subscribers know by email
when the new stats tables are uploaded. Sorry for the delay.
In the mean time, we enclose herewith a current comparison for
Internet usage growth from December 2000 till June 2005. The
analysis of the data by world regions is quite interesting and
confirms Internet growth everywhere.
These new figures are provisional and will not be displayed in
the regular website stats tables.
Enjoy reading your personal IWS newsletter.
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Will Internet Close the
Cinemas?
Hollywood studios are now facing an
unexpected slowdown in crucial DVD sales. 'Shrek 2,' which was
expected to sell 55 million DVDs, sold only 35 million. The
Incredibles is expected to sell 30 million DVDs instead of the 34
million projected.
For the past eight years, the studios have
been able to bank on revenue from sales and rentals of DVDs,
which have accounted for 60% of the entertainment
companies’ bottom lines, compared to just 20% taken in
ticket sales. Now, however, there are signs that DVD sales are
starting to follow the recent box-office slump.
DreamWorks Animation and Pixar Animation
Studios, despite having a couple of the biggest box-office hits
in recent memory, had to adjust their earnings estimates when
Shrek 2 and The Incredibles sold fewer DVDs than the companies
had predicted. Their stock prices plunged on the news.
This year up to now has been a total shock
to people in the film and DVD businesses. Given that a
movie’s theater run acts as a promotion for the DVD
release, the current box-office slump -- the worst in decades,
with 19-straight weekends of decreased attendance --
doesn’t look well, either.
Nevertheless, the DVD market is still
growing -- about 13% this year, largely on the strength of TV
releases and children's movies -- but that’s expected to
fall into the single digits within the next few years, according
to Adams Media Research. Take a look at a review of the Online DVD Rental websites.
And, meantime, Internet technology continues its advance.
Companies like Morgan Freeman’s newly formed,
Intel-backed ClickStar are
promising to deliver movies to consumers over the Internet. You
can now see good quality film previews at iFilm, its just a little
way ahead to getting the complete film delivered to your PC.
There are also monthly subscription websites where you can
download and see movies for a small sum.
If you have Broadband Internet access, you can try it free and
be the judge.
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Internet Usage Growth 2000 -
2005
According to our records, as of July 21,
2005 there are 938,710,92 Internet users in the world. This
corresponds to a 14.6% penetration rate for the world, based on a
total population estimate of 6,420,102,722. The five year growth
percentage to date is 160.0 %. The Internet growth in each world
region is as follows, ordered by penetration rate:
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World
Regions
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Internet
Users, 2000
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Internet
Users, 2005
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Growth
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% Pop.
2005
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Northern
America
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108,096,800
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223,392,807
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106.7 %
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68.0 %
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Oceania
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7,619,500
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16,448,966
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115.9 %
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49.2 %
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Europe
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103,096,093
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269,036,096
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161.0 %
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36.8 %
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Latin America +
Caribbean
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18,068,919
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68,130,804
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277.0 %
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12.5 %
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Asia
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114,303,000
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323,756,956
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183.2 %
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8.9
%
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Middle
East
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5,284,800
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21,770,700
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311.9 %
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8.3
%
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Africa
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4,514,400
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16,174,600
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258.3 %
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1.8
%
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Total
World
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360,983,512
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938,710,929
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160.0 %
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14.6 %
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Source: Internet World Stats, July, 2005.
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Note1: % Pop. is the Penetration
Rate, expressed as population percentage.
Note2: Internet Growth Percent is between December, 2000 and
June, 2005.
The detailed updated statistics for worldwide Internet usage may
be seen on the Internet World Stats website. Each day the target
mark of one billion Internet users, expected at the end of year
2005, seems closer and more achievable. See details.
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Internet Archive for Old Web
Pages
Sometimes you need to see an old copy of a
web page. This is frequent for market research statistics on
Internet usage, when somebody requires data from previous years.
We do not have those figures available because our basic idea is
to benchmark Internet Usage at year 2000 and update figures
constantly for each region, country and territory. However, we
have found a place where old data can be found. The Internet Archive is
building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural
artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, they provide
free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general
public.
If you wish to see back-issues of Internet World Stats web pages
and stats, all you have to do is click on this link, go to
The Way Back
Machine, and select the archive of
your interest.
An extra bonus for IWS Newsletter subscribers. Internet Usage
and Penetration statistics by country for 1998-2003 (pdf) are
available for viewing or download here: Usage and Penetration Rates.
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And that's all for today. Stay tuned for the midyear Internet
usage statistics update to be announced by IWS real soon. Till
then.
Take care,
Enrique de Argaez,
editor and webmaster
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