TOP 20 COUNTRIES WITH HIGHEST NUMBER OF INTERNET USERS

 TOP 20 COUNTRIES WITH HIGHEST NUMBER OF INTERNET USERS


Region                  Pop. 2010 Est         Latest Data       % Pop.      Growth 2000-2010

1 China                   1,330,141,295        420,000,000        31.6 %        1,766.7 %

2 United States        310,232,863           239,893,600        77.3 %        151.6 %

3 Japan                   126,804,433           99,143,700          78,2 %        110.6 %

4 India                     1,173,108,018        81,000,000          6.9 %          1,520.0 %

5 Brazil                    201,103,330           75,943,600          37.8 %        1,418.9 %

6 Germany               82,282,988             65,123,800         79.1 %        171.3 %

7 Russia                   139,390,205           59,700,000         42.8 %        1,825.8 %

8 United Kingdom    62,348,447             51,442,100         82.5 %        234.0 %

9 France                   64,768,389             44,625,300         68.9 %        425.0 %

10 Nigeria                152,217,341           43,982,200         28.9 %         21,891.1 %

11 Korea South        48,636,068             39,440,000         81.1 %         107.1 %

12 Turkey                 77,804,122             35,000,000         45.0 %         1,650.0 %

13 Iran                      76,923,300             33,200,000         43.2 %         13,180.0 %

14 Mexico                 112,468,855          30,600,000         27.2 %         1,028.2 %

15 Italy                      58,090,681            30,026,400         51.7 %         127.5 %

16 Indonesia              242,968,342          30,000,000         12.3 %         1,400.0 %

17 Philippines             99,900,177            29,700,000         29.7 %         1,385.0 %

18 Spain                    46,505,963            29,093,984         62.6 %         440.0 %

19 Argentina              41,343,201            26,614,813         64.4 %         964.6 %

20 Canada                 33,759,742            26,224,900         77.7 %         106.5 %

                                     
                      
                                                                                                                source : internetworldstats.com 

Some weird and interesting facts...

* Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel 'Gadsby' which contains over 50,000 words; none of them with the letter E!
* The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees!
* In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for examination malpractice!
* The CD was developed by Philips and Sony in 1980!
* The average iceberg weighs about 20,000,000 tons!

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* A full bladder is about the size of a soft ball; when your bladder is full, holding up 800cc of fluid, it is large enough to be noticeable!
* Bones can self-destruct; it is possible for your bones to destruct without enough calcium intake!
* More muscles are required to frown than to smile!
* The third set of molars is largely useless, doing little beyond crowding the mouth and sometimes causing pain!
* It is impossible to tickle yourself; you can give it a try!

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* Your brain has the capacity to store everything you experience; see, read or hear. However, the problem is to recall, whether you can access that information!
* Your teeth grows before birth; even though it takes months after you are born to see them, they start growing about six month before you are born!
* Humans can use sound to sense objects in their area using echolocation. It is thought that those who are blind develop this ability to heightened effect!
* On a pound for pound basis, (i.e for their size) babies are quite powerful and stronger than oxen!
* Throughout your life, the amount of saliva you have secreted could fill two swimming pools!

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* Your brain requires 20% of the oxygen and calories your body needs!
* 80% of the brain is water; thus you have to be properly hydrated for the sake of your mind!
* Human brain operates on 10 watts of power for computing and analyzing facts!
* A higher I.Q equals more dreams; the smarter you are the more you dream!
* The brain changes shape during puberty. The very structure of your brain changes during the teen years and it even affects impulsive, risky behaviour!

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* Your brain is more active when you sleep!
* The neurons in your brain are built differently and information travels along them at different speeds; this is why sometimes you can recall information instantly and sometimes it takes a little longer!
* Adrenaline gives you super strength. With the proper response in certain situations, you can really lift a car!
* Babies have blue eyes when they are born; melanin and exposure to ultraviolet light are needed to bring out the true colour of babies eyes. Until then they all have blue eyes!
* It is possible for your nose to identify and remember more than 50,000 smells!

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*Your body odour is unique to you; unless you have an identical twin. Even babies recognise the individual scents of their mothers!
* Human brain does not feel pain even though the brain processes pain signals!
* The first object to orbit earth was Sputnik 1, launched by USSR in october 1957!
* The first American to orbit earth was John Glenn in February 1962!
* Sharks can live up to 100 years!

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* The ancient Greeks called our galaxy the Milky Way because they thought it was made from drops of milk from the breasts of the Greek goddess Hera!
* The Arctic ocean has about 12 million square kilometer of floating ice and has the coldest winter temperature of about -34 degrees celsius!
* Elephants can spend more than 20 hours a day eating!
* The first man to walk on the moon was Neil Armstrong in July 1969!
* Sharks can live up to 100 years!

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* When Laki volcano in iceland erupted in 1783, its lava flow stretched 65km, the longest ever recorded!
* Sharks can go up to 6 weeks without feeding. The record for a shark fasting till date was observed in an acquarium with the swell shark, which did not feed for 15 months!
* The first animals to survive in orbital space flight were the soviet dogs, Strelka and Belka; launched in Sputnik5 in August 1960!
* The sleepiest mammals are armadillos, sloths and opossums. They spend 80 per cent of their lives sleeping or dozing!
* The first person to orbit earth was Yuri Gagarin, from the USSR, in April 1961!

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* About 1500 stars are visible at night with the naked eye in a clear, dark sky. There are 88 canstellations altogether; the smallest star measuring about 1700km across, it is a white dwarf called LP 327-16!
* In ancient Rome only important people wore purple clothes; this is because the purple dye came from a particular kind of shellfish and was very expensive!
* Lava from an erupting volcano may be as hot as 1200 degrees celsius!
* Some of the oldest mountains in the world are located in Scotland; they are estimated to be about 400 million years old!
* Blue whales weigh up to 7 tonnes at birth!

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* The longest jail sentence till date was passed in the United States; 10,000 years for a triple murder charge!
* Astronauts become a little taller in space; there's less gravity, so their bones are less bonded together!
* About 20% of all volcanoes are underwater!
* The Amazon 'Jesus Christ Lizard' can run across water!
* The industrial complex of Cubatao in Brazil is known as the valley of death; because of its pollution, which has destroyed the trees and rivers nearby!

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* The loudest noise ever known till date was produced by a volcanic eruption at krakatoa, near Japan in 1883; the sound was heard in Australia, 5000km away!
* The first woman in space was Valentina Tereshkova, from the USSR; in june 1963!
* Some animals can grow new parts of their body if damaged; starfish can grow new arms, lizards can grow broken-off tails!
* The fastest growing tree is the eucalyptus; it can grow up to 10 meters in a year!
* Over 4 million cars in Brazil are now running on gasohol instead of gasoline/petrol. Gasohol is a fuel made from sugarcane!

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* The world's largest recorded gathering of people till date was at a Hindu religious festival in India in 1989; it was attended by about 15 million people!
* Sharks, in their 400 million years on earth have shown an extraordinary ability to resist cancer and other diseases. This has raised hopes among medical researchers that the ocean's most feared predator might turn out to be the cancer patient's best friend; investigators continue to study the immune system of sharks to see if it can provide the answer to stop the spread of cancer in humans!
* Yuri Gagarin survived the first manned space flight but was killed in a plane crash seven years later!
* The first animal in space was the soviet dog, Laika, in November, 1957; it died on the flight!
* The largest tree in the world is a giant sequoia growing in california; it is 84 meters tall and measures 29 meters round the trunk!

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* Abraham Lincoln went to school for less than a year; he taught himself how to read and write!
* The world's largest palace till date has 1788 rooms; it was built for the Sultan of Brunei!
* There is no land at all at the North pole; only large mass of water with ice covering it!
* A mayfly only lives for a day; but a tortoise can live up to 100 years!
* Levi Strauss (Levi's) made the first pair of jeans in 1850; they were intended as work trousers for American miners looking for gold!