Internet Biggest Users: 1: China, 2: India [Used To Be #3], 3: United States

India Rises Past the US to Become the Internet's Second Biggest User (+Video)

Vlad Savov | June 2, 2016

There's only one set of presentation slides I look forward to every year, and that's Mary Meeker's annual Internet Trends report. In 2016, the highlight picked out by Meeker, partner at venture capital firm KPCB, is India's accelerating growth of user numbers in an otherwise decelerating market. She notes that, at 277 million, India's connected population is now greater than that of the United States and second only to China. This has come off the back of 40 percent growth over the past year, during which time the rest of the world has only inched up by 7 percent. India is now so big, in fact, that just by itself it adds 2 percentage points to the world's internet user growth.

Source: https://news.fastcompany.com/india-now-has-more-internet-users-than-the-us-4008988

<more at http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/2/11837898/india-internet-user-population-stats-mary-meeker-2016; related articles and links: http://www.kpcb.com/internet-trends (Internet Trends 2016–Code Conference. June 1, 2016) and https://news.fastcompany.com/india-now-has-more-internet-users-than-the-u-s-4008988 (India now has more Internet users than the U.S. June 1, 2016)>