世界網際網路人口分布與未來發展(World Internet Population Distribution & Future Development)

 目前每一分鐘網路網路使用者最可能使用網路狀態的示意圖

自1990年代隨著PC的網路卡與具有網路功能的PC作業系統Win95的問世，網際網路開始普及於先進國家與開發中國家的校園網路，到千禧年後新的網路作業系統Window XP以及Win7等及寬頻網路(Cable Modem ／xDSL／Fiber Optics／Wireless)開始流行於世界的家庭與企業中，目前世界的網際網路使用者已經超過二十四億人且還在持續增加中。但世界仍有將近三分之二的人口是沒有網路可用的，因此Facebook的創辦者祖克伯聯合了數家公司(成員主要是跟行動通信相關的半導體商、軟體商與品牌廠商，包含Erisson、Facebook、Mediatak、Nokia、Opera、Qualcomm與Samsung)打算推行internet.org計畫讓世界其他沒有網路可用者也可以使用網路。

隨著2007年Apple開始推出iPhone以及到了2009年以後搭載Google Android作業系統的智慧手機熱賣後，自2011年後智慧型手機的出貨量已經超過PC，而2013年平板電腦的總銷售量也超過PC加NB總合，更正式宣告行動通訊(Mobile Communication)時代的來臨。而行動通訊在先進國家早在幾年前就從3G跨入4G，目前則有國家打算推出5G了。而且很多使用者的電腦使用行為也逐漸從單機走向雲端服務。而且不只電子產品網路化甚至連大型家電也早在1990年代後期就開始走向網路化了，而目前Apple與Google更是準備將智慧手機與汽車產業結合。依據Cisco的歷史資料，全球的網路資訊流量在2012已經達到每個月32,223PB(目前大多數網路資訊流量以影音串流為主，而全世界所有的印刷品內容所含總資訊量(包含書與雜誌等等)也不過才300PB，且行動通訊的網路流量到2012年也達到885PB了)，至於社交網站Facebook的總帳號數到2011年已經超越地球總人口數了(當然很多人有兩個以上的帳號而且還有不少帳號是政府或者私人企業的)。2012年全球B2C電子商務的總營業額已經超過一兆美元，而電子商務的龍頭Amazon.com的營業額也從2000年的25億美金成長到2012年的610億美金。自2008年7月11日Apple的App Store問世到2013年5月16日已達到500億次的下載量且在2013年的總營收已經達到250億美金已經遠大於整個音樂產業160億美金的產值。

直到2013年，世界網際網路總人口使用率以歐洲最高達到75%(不含獨立國協)，非洲最低僅有16%，這裡指的是撥接或寬頻網路並不包括電信網路。而依單國使用人口多寡來算依序為中國、美國、印度、日本、巴西、俄羅斯、德國、奈及利亞(以平均國民所得而言有點令人驚奇)、英國與法國，台灣棑在31名，不過依單國人口來算當然一國人口越多越占優勢。所以接下來我們以網際網路滲透率來看則前10名國家分別為冰島、挪威、瑞典、荷蘭、丹麥、盧森堡、芬蘭、紐西蘭、列支敦士登與卡達可以說就是以歐洲小國寡民又高所得的國家為主了，台灣則是36名(這個排名是把沒有成立國家的區域或某些國家的海外領土也算進來)。至於幾十年後人類可能開始移民太陽系其他星球(行星或衛星)後是否會建立太陽系網路(Solar System Internet)則仍不確定。

Internet users by region 2005 2010 2013 Africa 2%    10%      16%      Americas 36% 49% 61% Arab States 8% 26% 38% Asia and Pacific 9% 23% 32% Commonwealth of Independent States  10%  34%  52% Europe 46% 67% 75% Internet Penetration Rank Country or area Penetration 1  Falkland Islands 96.90% 2  Iceland 96.00% 3  Norway 95.00% 4  Sweden 94.00% 5  Netherlands 93.00% 5  Denmark 93.00% 7  Luxembourg 92.00% 8  Bermuda 91.30% 9  Finland 91.00% 10  New Zealand 89.50% 11  Liechtenstein 89.40% 12  Qatar 88.10% 13  Bahrain 88.00% 14  United Kingdom 87.00% 15  Monaco 87.00% 16  Canada 86.80% 17  Andorra 86.40% 18  Faroe Islands 85.30% 19   Switzerland 85.20% 20  United Arab Emirates 85.00% 21  South Korea 84.10% 22  Germany 84.00% 23  Antigua and Barbuda 83.80% 24  France 83.00% 25  Australia 82.30% 26  Niue 82.20% 27  Belgium 82.00% 28  United States 81.00% 29  Austria 81.00% 30  Slovakia 80.00% 31  Saint Kitts and Nevis 79.30% 32  Kuwait 79.20% 33  Japan 79.10% 34  Ireland 79.00% 34  Estonia 79.00% 36  Taiwan 76.00% 37  Czech Republic 75.00% 38  Singapore 74.20% 39  Cayman Islands 74.10% 40  Latvia 74.00% 40  Aruba 74.00% 42  Israel 73.40% 43  Barbados 73.30% 44  Hong Kong 72.80% 45  Spain 72.00% 45  Hungary 72.00% 47  The Bahamas 71.70% 48  Slovenia 70.00% 48  Malta 70.00% 50  Lithuania 68.00% Internet Users Rank Country or Area Internet User 1  China 568,192,066 2  United States 254,295,536 3  India 151,598,994 4  Japan 100,684,474 5  Brazil 99,357,737 6  Russia 75,926,004 7  Germany 68,296,919 8  Nigeria 55,930,391 9  United Kingdom 54,861,245 10  France 54,473,474 11  Mexico 44,173,551 12  South Korea 41,091,681 13  Indonesia 38,191,873 14  Philippines 37,602,976 15  Egypt 36,881,374 16  Vietnam 36,140,967 17  Turkey 35,990,932 18  Italy 35,531,527 19  Spain 33,870,948 20  Canada 29,760,764 21  Poland 24,969,935 22  Argentina 23,543,412 23  Colombia 22,160,055 24  Iran 20,504,000 25  South Africa 20,012,275 26  Malaysia 19,200,408 27  Pakistan 18,960,037 28  Australia 18,129,727 29  Thailand 17,779,139 30  Morocco 17,770,081 31  Taiwan 17,656,414 32  Netherlands 15,559,488 33  Ukraine 15,115,820 34  Saudi Arabia 14,328,632 35  Kenya 13,805,311 36  Venezuela 12,353,883 37  Peru 11,287,915 38  Romania 10,924,252 39  Chile 10,482,463 40  Uzbekistan 10,369,924 41  Bangladesh 10,148,280 42  Kazakhstan 9,341,977 43  Belgium 8,559,449 44  Sweden 8,557,561 45  Czech Republic 7,632,975 46  Sudan 7,183,409 47  Hungary 7,170,086 48  Portugal 6,900,134 49  Switzerland 6,752,540 50  Austria 6,657,992 Global Internet traffic by year(1PB=1000TB)  Year IP Traffic (PB/month) Fixed Internet Traffic (PB/month) Mobile Internet Traffic (PB/month) 1990 0.001 0.001 1991 0.002 0.002 n/a 1992 0.005 0.004 n/a 1993 0.01   0.01   n/a 1994 0.02   0.02   n/a 1995 0.18   0.17   n/a 1996 1.9     1.8     n/a 1997 5.4     5.0     n/a 1998 12       11       n/a 1999 28       26       n/a 2000 84       75       n/a 2001 197       175       n/a 2002 405       356       n/a 2003 784       681       n/a 2004 1,477       1,267       n/a 2005 2,426       2,055       0.9    2006 3,992       3,339       4       2007 6,430       5,219       15       2008 9,927       7,639       38       2009 14,414       10,676       92       2010 20,197       14,929       256       2011 27,483       20,634       597       2012 32,223 31,338       885      Web Client市佔率 Source Date Microsoft Windows Apple Linux kernel based Other 8 7 Vista XP WP&RT Other OS X iOS Linux Android Other Net Market Share Feb-14 7.57% 33.52% 2.20% 20.92% 0.13% 0.16% 5.44% 15.43% 1.05% 10.53% 0.28% 2.77% StatCounter Global Stats Feb-14 8.38% 39.09% 2.72% 13.11% 0.59% 0.17% 5.94% 9.50% 1.10% 12.67% 1.20% 4.51% W3Counter Feb-14 8.25% 39.50% 2.93% 13.32% - - 10.11% 7.44% 1.86% 6.85% 7.77% AT Internet Nov-13 6.70% 44.70% 5.50% 16.70% - - 6.70% 11.10% 1.00% 6.50% 0.30% Wikimedia Jan-14 5.55% 27.18% 2.25% 8.09% 0.66% 0.10% 5.68% 33.72% 1.27% 10.94% 0% 0.48% PC與NB OS市佔率 Windows 7 47.53% Windows XP 28.53% Windows 8 10.68% OS X 7.68% Windows Vista 2.10% Linux 1.48%

平板電腦 OS市佔率

Source	Date	iOS	Android	Microsoft Windows	Other
Strategy Analysis	Q1 2013	48.2%	43.4%	7.5%	0.9%

Historical sales figures (in millions of units)

Year	Android (Google)	BlackBerry (RIM)	iOS (Apple)	Linux (other than Android)	Palm/WebOS (Palm/HP)	Symbian (Nokia)	Asha Full Touch (Nokia)	Windows Mobile/Phone (Microsoft)	Bada (Samsung)	Other
2007		11.77	3.3	11.76	1.76	77.68		14.7
2008		23.15	11.42	11.26	2.51	72.93		16.5
2009	6.8	34.35	24.89	8.13	1.19	80.88		15.03
2010	67.22	47.45	46.6			111.58		12.38
2011	219.52	51.54	89.26			93.41		8.77		14.24
2012-Q1	81.07	9.94	33.12			12.47		2.71	3.84	1.24
2012-Q2	104.8	7.4	26.0	3.5		6.8		5.4		0.1
2012-Q3	122.5	9.0	23.6			4.4	6.5	4.1	5.1	0.7
2012-Q4	144.7	7.3	43.5			2.6	9.3	6.2	2.7	0.7
2013-Q1	162.1	6.3	37.4			__	--	7.0	--	--
2013-Q2	177.9	6.2	31.9			.631	--	7.4	.838	.471

Global desktop and mobile stats combined from StatCounter (Top 5 browsers)
Date	Internet Explorer	Chrome	Firefox	Safari			Opera			Android	Mobile Total
				Desktop+Laptop	Mobile	Total	Desktop+Laptop	Mobile	Total
July 2013	20.27%	36.29%	16.60%	7.10%	4.27%	11.37%	1.01%	2.73%	3.74%	4.97%	17.35%
June 2013	21.35%	35.82%	16.79%	7.04%	3.79%	10.83%	1.03%	2.28%	3.31%	4.66%	16.08%
May 2013	23.67%	35.66%	16.87%	6.80%	3.67%	10.55%	0.87%	2.13%	3.00%	4.45%	14.62%
April 2013	25.58%	33.71%	17.27%	6.89%	3.76%	10.65%	0.85%	2.26%	3.11%	4.30%	13.90%
March 2013	25.08%	32.88%	17.86%	7.28%	3.90%	11.18%	1.00%	2.24%	3.24%	4.43%	14.44%
February 2013	25.54%	31.96%	18.28%	7.37%	3.89%	11.26%	1.04%	2.21%	3.25%	4.53%	14.35%
January 2013	26.37%	31.51%	18.39%	7.12%	3.64%	10.76%	1.02%	2.17%	3.19%	4.36%	14.13%
December 2012	26.30%	31.12%	18.71%	6.77%	3.37%	10.14%	1.01%	2.46%	3.54%	4.11%	14.55%
November 2012	27.15%	31.05%	19.74%	6.91%	3.01%	9.92%	1.23%	2.35%	3.58%	3.55%	13.08%
October 2012	28.13%	30.49%	19.57%	6.85%	2.91%	9.76%	1.43%	2.33%	3.76%	3.18%	12.30%
September 2012	28.77%	30.01%	19.70%	6.77%	2.79%	9.56%	1.42%	2.32%	3.74%	3.02%	12.03%
August 2012	28.98%	29.63%	20.16%	6.12%	2.83%	9.36%	1.44%	2.28%	3.72%	2.87%	11.78%
July 2012	28.49%	30.06%	21.01%	6.33%	2.77%	9.10%	1.53%	2.15%	3.68%	2.57%	11.09%
June 2012	28.95%	29.35%	22.00%	6.27%	2.54%	8.81%	1.59%	2.23%	3.82%	2.28%	10.40%
May 2012	28.87%	29.15%	22.97%	6.37%	2.31%	8.68%	1.59%	2.21%	3.80%	2.13%	10.11%
April 2012	30.81%	28.24%	22.49%	6.45%	2.27%	8.72%	1.55%	2.06%	3.62%	2.04%	9.58%
March 2012	31.68%	28.09%	22.73%	6.12%	2.15%	8.27%	1.62%	2.06%	3.68%	1.90%	8.99%
February 2012	32.70%	27.24%	22.76%	6.19%	2.16%	8.35%	1.85%	2.06%	3.70%	1.93%	8.53%
January 2012	34.27%	25.99%	22.68%	6.06%	1.92%	7.98%	1.78%	2.06%	3.84%	1.71%	8.49%
December 2011	35.54%	25.08%	23.24%	5.59%	1.82%	7.41%	1.82%	1.95%	3.77%	1.63%	8.04%
November 2011	37.81%	23.90%	23.48%	5.51%	1.67%	7.18%	1.69%	1.56%	3.26%	1.42%	6.95%
October 2011	37.55%	23.36%	24.66%	5.54%	1.53%	7.07%	1.69%	1.41%	3.10%	1.37%	6.55%
September 2011	38.85%	22.02%	24.98%	5.22%	1.42%	6.64%	1.55%	1.51%	3.06%	1.34%	6.74%
August 2011	38.91%	21.51%	25.53%	4.82%	1.37%	6.19%	1.55%	1.54%	3.09%	1.40%	7.12%
July 2011	39.47%	20.59%	25.99%	4.81%	1.40%	6.21%	1.54%	1.54%	3.08%	1.28%	7.02%
June 2011	40.73%	19.30%	26.49%		4.74%			1.63%			6.53%

Social Network Market Share according to ComScore, up to end of November 2011:

Worldwide	Unique Visitors
Facebook.com	792,999,000
Twitter.com	167,903,000
LinkedIn.com	94,823,000
Google+	66,756,000
MySpace	61,037,000
Others	255,539,000

Search Engine Market Share

Search engine	Market share in May 2011	Market share in December 2010
Google	82.80%	84.65%
Yahoo!	6.42%	6.69%
Baidu	4.89%	3.39%
Bing	3.91%	3.29%
Yandex	1.7%	1.3%
Ask	0.52%	0.56%
AOL	0.3%	0.42%

Top 10 Cloud Service Provider

Rank	Service Provider
1	Salesforce.com, San Francisco, CA, USA
2	Amazon, Seattle, WA, USA
3	Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA
4	Oracle, Redwood City, CA, USA
5	Google, Mountain View, CA, USA
6	SAP, Walldorf, Germany
7	SoftLayer (IBM), Dallas, TX, USA
8	Terremark (a Verizon Company), Miami, FL, USA
9	Rackspace, San Antonio, TX, USA
10	NetSuite, San Mateo, CA, USA

World Largest 30 Telecommunication Service Provider

Rank	Company	Total subscribers (in millions)
1	China Mobile	763.2(November 2013)
2	Airtel	484.7 (July 2013)
3	Vodafone	453.633(June 2013)
4	China Unicom	276(October 2013)
5	América Móvil	251.8(June 2012)
6	Telefónica	249.26(December 2012)
7	Axiata	239.7(Q3 2013)
8	Orange	231.5(30 June 2013)
9	VimpelCom Ltd.	209(March 2012)
10	China Telecom	183(October 2013)
11	MTN Group	175.98(June 2012)
12	Etisalat	167(December 2011)
13	Telenor	166
14	TeliaSonera	160(December 2010, includes MegaFon and TurkCell)
15	Saudi Telecom Company (STC)	139(December 2010)
16	Reliance Communications	135.88(August 2012)
17	T-Mobile	129.14(March 2012)
18	Verizon Wireless	115.78
19	Idea Cellular	113.9(December 2012)
20	AT&T Mobility	107.0(January 2013)
21	MTS	106.07(December 2011)
22	Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM)	102.50(December 2011)
23	BSNL	96.28(October 2012)
24	Tata Teleservices	77.4(July 2011)
25	Turkcell	70.7(Q3 2013)
26	Aircel	66.79(October 2012)
27	Smart Communications	72.5(September 2013)
28	Maxis Communications	63.71(December 2010)
29	MegaFon	62(October 2012)
30	NTT Dcomo	61.62 (June 2013)