China surpasses the United States to become the World’s largest Internet market…
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March 14, 2008
China has surpassed the United States as the World’s largest Internet market by number of users a research firm said Thursday.
The estimate by Beijing-based BDA was based on data provided by the China Internet Network Information center which indicated that the country’s Internet users totaled 210 million in December of 2007.
Neilsen Net/Ratings put the US web population at 216 million for the same period, BDA said. “Based on these sources and the assumtions that these markets have continued to grow in 2008 to date at the same rates that they grew in 2007, we can conclude that China has by now comfortably surpassed the United States as the world’s largest internet population,” analyst, Bin Liu said in a statement.