Active Home Internet Users by Country, November 2006
The number of active home Internet users by country for the month of November 2006.
Brazil experienced an increase of over one million active home Internet users in November, according to data from Nielsen//NetRatings.
Gains in the 10 countries tracked come to 6.1 million active home users, a 1.88 percent increase from October. The largest increases occurred in Brazil (8.53 percent); France (7.37 percent); and Spain (4.04 percent).
The U.K. (-1.88 percent); Germany (-1.03 percent); and Japan (-0.69 percent) each experienced a drop in the number of active home Internet users in November over the previous month.
Nielsen//NetRatings uses a sampling methodology applied worldwide, which allows for data aggregation on a regional and global basis.
| Worldwide Active Home Internet Universe, November 2006 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Oct-06 | Nov-06 | Growth (%) | Difference |
| Australia | 10,438,386 | 10,648,118 | 2.01 | 209,732 |
| Brazil | 13,312,588 | 14,448,077 | 8.53 | 1,135,489 |
| Switzerland | 3,783,945 | 3,796,392 | 0.33 | 12,447 |
| Germany | 33,627,808 | 33,282,100 | -1.03 | -345,707 |
| Spain | 12,714,303 | 13,227,952 | 4.04 | 513,649 |
| France | 19,443,777 | 20,876,899 | 7.37 | 1,433,122 |
| Italy | 16,959,123 | 17,242,991 | 1.67 | 283,868 |
| Japan | 44,182,811 | 43,879,983 | -0.69 | -302,828 |
| U.K. | 24,476,339 | 24,015,923 | -1.88 | -460,417 |
| U.S. | 146,544,990 | 150,190,256 | 2.49 | 3,645,266 |
| Total | 325,484,069 | 331,608,691 | 1.88 | 6,124,621 |
| Source: Nielsen//NetRatings, 2007 | ||||
