• INTERNET USAGE, WORLDWIDE: 332.73 million people worldwide have Internet access. (NUA, June 2000).
• INTERNET USAGE, WORLDWIDE: By year-end 2000 there will be 375 million Internet users, up 100 million since 1999. (eTForecasts, May 2000).
• INTERNET USAGE, WORLDWIDE: global online population has grown to over 400 million for the first time. According to newly released statistics from Nua Internet Surveys, 407.1 million people now have Internet access. http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356267&rel=true
• INTERNET USAGE, WORLDWIDE: number of worldwide internet users increased to 414 million in 2000 -- and 40 million are making wireless connections. http://www.emarketer.com/estatnews/estats/edemographics/20010209_ww_int_use.html?ref=wn
• INTERNET USAGE, WORLDWIDE: Only one-quarter of the global Internet population will reside in the US by 2005, but only one-third of American online businesses are targeting global markets, according to Jupiter Research. http://cyberatlas.com/big_picture/geographics/article/0,,5911_558061,00.html
• INTERNET USAGE, WORLDWIDE: RHK estimates that by July 2001 there will be some 800 million Internet users worldwide-up from 380 million today. Asian growth is phenomenal: China alone is adding around 2 million Internet subscribers a month, while Korea has 2 million high-speed households already hooked up.
• INTERNET USAGE: There are more than 414 million Internet users around the world. And that number is expected to triple by the end of 2005 to nearly 1.7 billion. (eTForecasts, Feb. 2001).
• INTERNET USAGE, 214 NATIONS ONLINE: In 2000, there were 214 countries connected to the Internet -- up from 60 in 1993 and just 8 in 1988. (ITU, Apr. 2001).
• PC PENETRATION U.S. v EU: By the end of 1998, there were more than 50 PCs per 100 people in the US while only 20 PCs per 100 people in Europe. (European IT Observatory, May 2000).
• INTERNET TAXES: If California applied sales taxes to most Internet purchases this year, the state would gain $184 million in additional state sales tax revenue, but lose 45,207 jobs in 2001. (Pacific Research Institute, Mar. 2001).
• U.S. WIRELESS USERS: 61.5 million Americans will be using wireless devices to access the Internet in 2003, up from 7.4 million in the US today (728% increase). (IDC Research, Feb. 2000).
• U.S. WORKFORCE ONLINE: An estimated 70% of the US workforce have Internet access at work in 2000, up from 63% in 1999. This figure should rise to 85% by 2004, according to In-Stat. Small businesses (5 to 99 full-time staff), however, are rapidly adapting to the new Internet climate, with Internet penetration above 80% in 2000. These firms are expected to invest almost $7 billion on application services alone by 2004. http://www.instat.com/pr/2000/ebusiness_pr.htm
• UK BUSINESSES ONLINE: A higher proportion of UK businesses have websites than companies in the US, according to a new survey. http://www.nua.ie/surveys/?f=VS&art_id=905356591&rel=true
• US INTERNET USAGE: Average US Internet user went online 18 sessions, spent a total of 9 hours, 5 minutes and 24 seconds online and visited 10 unique sites per month. (Nielsen NetRatings, June 2000).
• INTERNET USAGE, ASIA: According to NetValue Singapore, among all Asians, South Koreans spent the longest amount of time online -- 15.7 hours per month -- in October 2000. Internet users in Hong Kong came in second with 11.3 hours per month and Sinaporeans in third with 9.8 hours per month. http://www.emarketer.com/estatnews/estats/easia/20001221_asia.html?ref=wn
• INTERNET USAGE, ASIA: Number of Internet users in Asia will quadruple to 188 million by 2004 from 72 million at the end of 2000, encouraged by decreasing access fees and the wider availability of local content. (Dataquest, Dec. 2000).
• INTERNET USAGE, ASIA: Singapore leads Asia in terms of Internet penetration, with 47.5% of its population online, according to a new study by NetValue. http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356264&rel=true
• INTERNET USAGE, ASIA-PACIFIC: Led by China, the number of active Internet users and PC owners in the Asia-Pacific region will increase dramatically in the coming years, according to eMarketer and Dataquest. http://cyberatlas.com/big_picture/geographics/article/0,,5911_598461,00.html
• INTERNET USAGE, CHINA/HONG KONG: The number of Internet users in China has reached 12.3 million people, which includes Hong Kong’s Internet population at 1.85 million (CyberAtlas).
• INTERNET USAGE, AUSTRALIA: In February 2000, 3.5 million Australian households (50%) had PCs and 1.9 million, or 28%, had Internet access (compared with 300,000 households with PCs and 600,000 with Internet access in February 1999 (Australian Bureau of Statistics , June 2000).
• INTERNET USAGE, BY GENDER: Female users of the Internet now outnumber male users according to a new survey shows by Media Metrix and Jupiter Communications. The survey is based on a sample group of 55,000 users. In May of 1999 the total U.S. online population was 45.4% female and 54.4% male.  In May 2000 the numbers have changed to 50.4% female and 49.6% male. http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A137-2000Aug9.html
• INTERNET USAGE, CHILDREN & SENIORS ONLINE: Kids' penetration (2-12) will increase from 32% in 2000 to 62% by 2005 and senior penetration will increase from 16% currently to 48% by 2005. (Jupiter Communications , June 2000).
• INTERNET USAGE, CHILDREN: 40% of American children (more than 25 million) are on the Internet, up 300% from 1997 (Grunwald Associates , June 2000).
• INTERNET USAGE, DATA TRAFFIC SURPASSING VOICE: Voice traffic is growing at 10% per year or less, while data traffic is conservatively estimated to be growing at 125% per year, meaning voice will be less than 1% of the total traffic by 2007. (Technology Futures, Inc March 2000).
• INTERNET USAGE, DEMOGRAPHICS: Currently 93% of physicians are online in the US, though only 13% are e-mailing patients. http://www.emarketer.com/estatnews/estats/edemographics/20010301_doctors_online.html?ref=wn
• INTERNET USAGE, DEMOGRAPHICS: Home Internet access for blue-collar workers is growing faster than any other occupational group, surging 52 percent since March 2000, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. http://cyberatlas.com/big_picture/demographics/article/0,,5901_741201,00.html
• INTERNET USAGE, DEMOGRAPHICS: Most physicians connect to the Internet on a daily basis and 42 percent work in practices that have websites, according to new research. (Harris Interactive, Feb. 2001). http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356513&rel=true
• INTERNET USAGE, DEMOGRAPHICS: Number of factory operator/laborers online in the US jumped from 6.2 million to 9.5 million between March 2000 and March 2001 -- a 52% increase. http://www.emarketer.com/estatnews/estats/edemographics/20010419_worker_users.html?ref=wn
• INTERNET USAGE, DEMOGRAPHICS: Only 15% of the 65-and-older group were online, compared with 75% of the 18-29 age bracket. (Pew Internet & American Life Study, Feb. 2001).
• INTERNET USAGE, DEMOGRAPHICS: Women have reached parity with men in Internet usage based on percentage of the population, a far cry from the nearly 2-to-1 male-to-female ratio found in a 1998 Georgia Tech study. (GAO Report, Feb. 2001).
• INTERNET USAGE, DIGITAL TV: Digital television connections will grow from 62 million in 2001 to 350 million in 2006, according to research by Ovum, which also predicts that television commerce revenues will be worth $45 billion by 2005. http://cyberatlas.com/big_picture/hardware/article/0,,5921_543651,00.html
• INTERNET USAGE, DOCTORS ONLINE: The Internet is transforming the medical practice for physicians faster than most industry observers thought possible, according to a survey released Monday by the Health Technology Center (HealthTech). More than one-third of doctors consider a wide range of Internet-enabled business and clinical services to be essential advantages to their practices, with 96 percent of those agreeing that the technologies will make medical practice easier and improve care quality no later than 2003. The doctors identified as six "essential" services that can be aided by technology: reporting diagnoses, processing claims, accessing pharmaceutical information, buying medical office products, communicating with patients via e-mail and maintaining electronic medical records. Ninety-three percent of the doctors surveyed agreed that "lack of system compatibility across healthcare organizations" is a critical barrier to realization of the full potential of Internet-enabled medical systems.
• INTERNET USAGE, EMAIL VOLUME: Average U.S. consumer will receive 1,600 commercial email messages in 2005, up from 40 in 1999, while non-marketing and personal correspondence will more than double from approximately 1,750 emails per year in 1999 to almost 4,000 in 2005 (Jupiter Communications, May 2000).
• INTERNET USAGE, EMAIL: Number of e-mail service subscriptions soared in 2000, up more than 88% from the end of 1999 to 514.25 million mailboxes worldwide.  (Messaging Online, Mar. 2001).
• INTERNET USAGE, EMAIL: Number of U.S. mail service subscribers grew by only 73% in 2000, while the number of international service subscribers increased by 109%. (Messaging Online, Mar. 2001).
• INTERNET USAGE, E-MAIL: US Workers now deal with an average of 196 messages each day, 5 more than their UK counterparts.  (Pitney Bowes, June 2000).
• INTERNET USAGE, EU: European online ordering population will increase from 19 million in 2000 to nearly 100 million (70% of the population) in 2004. (Datamonitor, May 2000).
• INTERNET USAGE, EUROPE: eMarketer predicts the number of active Internet users in Europe will grow from 70 million at the end of 2000, to 108 million by the end of this year, and 255 million by the end of 2004. http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356661&rel=true
• INTERNET USAGE, EUROPE: European Internet penetration rose by 76% to116 million people, 30% of the European population, by the end of 2000.  (Analysys, Jan. 2001).
• INTERNET USAGE, EUROPE: Internet penetration in European Union households grew a staggering 55% between March and October 2000, according to data released by the European Commission on Tuesday, reports Reuters. But fast Internet access was still virtually unheard of in EU homes and connection prices did not fall as fast as in the United States.
• INTERNET USAGE, WESTERN EUROPE: 1.6 trillion e-mails will be sent annually in 2005 in Western Europe, up from 511 billion in 2000. (IDC, Oct. 2000).
• INTERNET USAGE, GERMAN BUSINESSES: Over 90% of German businesses are using the Internet, (KPMG & the Confederation of German Employer's Associations, Nov. 2000).
• INTERNET USAGE, GLOBAL 500 COMPANIES: All of the Global 500 companies now have corporate web sites, up from 91% in 1999 and 86% in 1998.  (Recruitsoft.com, May 2000).
• INTERNET USAGE, JAPAN: There are now 19.4 million Japanese (over 20% of Japanese homes) using the Internet, up 128.8% from last year (Las Vegas Sun, June 2000).
• INTERNET USAGE, LATIN AMERICA: IDC has predicted that there will be 75 million Internet user in Latin America by 2005, up from 15 million last year. http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356630&rel=true
• INTERNET USAGE, LATIN AMERICA: Number of adult internet users in Latin America will total 8 million in 2000, and 19 million by 2003 (eMarketer, June 2000).
• INTERNET USAGE, MOBILE: Jupiter Media Metrix: Delays on mobile services in US.  Ninety-six million US consumers will use mobile devices to access the Internet by 2005, up from 4.1 million in 2000. http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356530&rel=true
• INTERNET USAGE, RETIREES: New study from NetValue shows that the number of retired people going online in the US jumped by 28.1 percent in December 2000, to a total off 8.6 million unique visitors. http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356423&rel=true
• INTERNET USAGE, SENIOR CITIZENS: Adults, ages 50 and older, will account for 23 million users by the end of 2000, comprising a market larger than that of any of the youth segments: kids (14 million), teens (13 million), or college students (12 million). (Jupiter Communications, June 2000).
• INTERNET USAGE, STATE OF THE NET: Internet traffic is becoming less concentrated.  In June 2000, 18.6 percent of all page views on the Web were from the Top 10 sites. More than one-third (33.7 percent) were from the Top 100 sites, and 53.3 percent were from the top 1,000 sites. In January 2001, 16.6 percent of page views were from the Top 10 sites; 29.6 percent were from the Top 100 and 48.3 percent were from the Top 1,000. (CyberAtlas, Mar. 2001).
• INTERNET USAGE, TIME ONLINE: Americans spent an average of 1,599 hours watching TV and 135 hours surfing the Web in 2000. (Industry Standard, Feb. 19, 2001).
• INTERNET USAGE, U.S.: Over half (56%) of US households had Internet access in November, a significant increase on last year's figure of 43%. http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356265&rel=true
• INTERNET USAGE, US: number of home Internet users in the US increased by 33 percent in 2000, with African Americans leading the online growth. http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356501&rel=true
• INTERNET USAGE, USA: 168 million Americans used the Internet in January 2001, 60% of U.S. population. (Nielsen NetRatings, Feb. 2001).
• INTERNET USAGE, WIRELESS, LATIN AMERICA:  Number of wireless internet users in Latin America will increase from current 1.4 million to almost 48 million by 2007.  (Strategis Group, 2000).
• INTERNET USAGE, WIRELESS: Today there are about 40 million users around the world that use some form of wireless Internet access. By 2005 eTForecasts expects there will be more than 730 million. (eTForecasts, Feb. 2001).
• INTERNET USAGE: Almost three-quarters (73 percent) of US children between the ages of 12 and 17 have Internet access, according to the latest figures from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356484&rel=true
• INTERNET USAGE: Number of consumers connecting to the internet in the US increased by 23.5 million between 1999 and 2000, and they're not all using dial-up. http://www.emarketer.com/estatnews/estats/broadband/20010206_us_access.html?ref=wn
  

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Research organizations differ on many measurements and predictions. Cisco Systems cannot verify the accuracy of all of the findings. We include all credible information to offer a glimpse into the range of estimates and predictions.

Abbreviations / acronyms used herein are defined and explained more fully in the issue briefs available at Cisco’s public policy page. Most common acronyms include DSL (digital subscriber line service, which is high speed Internet access over telephone lines); WAN (wide area network connections link different organizations such as schools across a region); LAN (local area network connections link computers within an organization)