The Booming of Asia-Pacific Internet User Continues

July 9, 2008 | Written by annliu | Filed Under Alert & Opinion & News

comScore finds that the Asia-Pacific region’s Internet audience is growing faster than all the other regions, with India and China leading the boom, according to ZdnetAsia

The Internet analyst company’s latest statement, the regional Internet audience grew at an average of 14 percent during the first half of the year to hit 319 million users.

Among the regions, India registered the strongest growth at 27 percent with over 28 million users, followed by China at 14 percent growth with over 102 million, Taiwan and Malaysia also clocked double-digit growth at 12 percent for bothsaid comScore.

Taiwan and Malaysia also clocked double-digit growth at 12 percent for both …

Internet audience growth by unique visitor numbers: comScore

	April 2007	April 2008	% Change
Asia-Pacific	280,418,000	318,623,000	14
China	90,274,000	102,848,000	14
Japan	53,685,000	55,260,000	3
India	22,395,000	28,375,000	27
South Korea	26,323,000	25,652,000	-3
Australia	10,048,000	10,904,000	9
Taiwan	9,245,000	10,388,000	12
Malaysia	7,462,000	8,327,000	12
Hong Kong	3,525,000	3,718,000	5
Singapore	2,216,000	2,298,000	4
New Zealand	1,937,000	2,161,000	12