More than two billion people on the planet used the Internet in 2011, according
to a study by analytical firm The Royal Pingdom.
That is about a third of all the inhabitants of the planet. Given this speed, we can assume that the day when everyone in the world will use the Internet is not far off.
About 44% of all Internet users live in Asia, and about 23% in Europe. The countries of North America accounted for about 13% of network users, which is slightly higher than in Latin America, where they are 10%. Africa, the Middle East and Australia accounted for only 6%, 3% and 1% of users, respectively.
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Among individual countries, China has long been the leader in the number and growth rate of users, where the Internet uses more than 485 million people.

Among social networks, Facebook remains the undisputed leader with 800 million accounts, of which 350 million are used through the mobile version of the site. The number of registered Twitter accounts is 225 million, almost as many tweets per day.
Internel Explorer is still the most popular browser with a 39% share. Google Chrome ranks second with 28% of users, while Mozilla Firefox uses slightly less people - 25%.

The number of email accounts is one and a half times the total number of Internet users, and the most popular client, occupying a little less than a third of the market, remains Outlook.
The average user, whose work is somehow connected with the computer, receives and sends 112 letters per day. 70% of total email traffic is spam.
The number of sites in the global web at the end of 2011 amounted to more than 555 million, of which about 300 million of them appeared last year.