eMarketer.com reports that the number of internet users will surpass 3 billion in 2015. As the world’s population is expected to reach 7.2 billion next year this would mean that two out of every five people are online.
It is believed that by the end of this year Brazil will supplant Japan as the world’s four-largest internet user population while Mexico will pass Germany as the eighth largest next year.
India, which is the second-largest English speaking county, is expected to pass the United States as having the second largest internet population in 2016.
China is the largest and expected to stay such.
