Top 10 countries for mobile phone and internet users

[FarCenter]

Number of Mobile Phone Users

1. China 859,000,000
2. India 752,000,000
3. United States 279,000,000
4. Russia 238,000,000
5. Indonesia 220,000,000
6. Brazil 202,944,000
7. Vietnam 154,000,000
8. Japan 121,000,000
9. Pakistan 111,000,000
10. Germany 105,000,000

Number of Internet Users

1. China 389,000,000
2. United States 245,000,000
3. Japan 99,182,000
4. Brazil 75,982,000
5. Germany 65,125,000
6. India 61,338,000
7. United Kingdom 51,444,000
8. France 45,262,000
9. Nigeria 43,989,000
10. Russia 40,853,000

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/cia-posts-top-10-world-wide-internet-and-mobile-phone-usage-lists

[longship]

1. What would be interesting is percentage of population

With cell phone and broadband access.

I have barely sufficient cell access here, and zero broadband. No cable here, either.

AFAIK, the Northern European counties are tops in this regard.

[FarCenter]

2. Nordic countries have highest cellphone usage; IIRC, South Korea has highest broadband.

[Iterate]

3. Germany only has a population of 81 million (2012 est.),

and only 76 million above the age of 14, and only 66.5 million between the ages of 14 and 65.

To estimate the number of mobile phone users at 105 million and internet users at 65.1 million, I would assume they are including pets and hedgehogs.

At any rate, it gives me some doubt about the CIA factbook numbers. No word at the site about how they derived them.

[FarCenter]

4. It's not uncommon to have one cell phone for business and one cell phone for personal use.

[Iterate]

5. I realize that, but that counts numbers, not users.

Even granting them that, we're still not in the ballpark of what's reasonable, or even possible.