Active Home Internet Users by Country, May 2009

Enid Burns | June 26, 2009 | 0 comments

The population of active Internet users in the 10 countries tracked by Nielsen Online went up almost across the board.

The United Kingdom was the one country where the number of Internet users decreased, which dipped only slightly, at the rate of half a percent between April and May.

In the other nine countries tracked by Nielsen Online, the number of active Internet users increased between half a percent and almost 6 percent in the same period. Brazil increased by 0.42 percent. France showed the greatest increase with 5.57 percent growth in active Internet population in May.

Nielsen Online uses a sampling methodology applied worldwide, which allows for data aggregation on a regional and global basis. Active Internet users are derived from the number of users who have logged on in the previous 30 days.

Worldwide Active Internet Home Users, May 2009
Country	April 2009	May 2009	Growth (%)	Difference
Australia	10,929,536	11,237,351	2.82	307,815
Brazil	25,460,307	25,566,439	0.42	106,132
France	29,457,939	31,099,132	5.57	1,641,193
Germany	36,158,816	36,706,500	1.51	544,684
Italy	17,662,655	17,769,768	0.61	107,113
Japan	48,567,721	49,711,242	2.35	1,143,520
Spain	19,375,214	19,826,831	2.33	451,617
Switzerland	3,721,585	3,765,629	1.18	44,044
U.K.	29,063,326	29,048,332	-0.05	-14,994
U.S.	154,525,974	156,557,641	1.31	2,031,667
Source: Nielsen Online, 2009