Active Home Web Use by Country, January 2006
Active home Internet users leveled off in January. A few countries experienced dips in the number of Web users.
The number of active home Internet users continues its growth in a majority of the 11 countries tracked by Nielsen//NetRatings. Yet the overall growth rate stagnated in January due to a decrease in active users in a few countries.
Brazil continued to lose traction with active Internet users, experiencing a 1.41 percent slip. After closing the year with a slight increase to its Internet user base in December, Germany’s active users slipped just over half a percent. While France gained the lead in European broadband accounts last year, January showed a loss of 132,724 active users. Declines were also experienced in Sweden and the United States.
Nielsen//NetRatings uses a sampling methodology applied worldwide which allows for aggregation of data on a regional and global basis.
| Active Home Internet Users by Country, January 2006 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country | December 2005 |
January 2006 |
Change (%) | One-Month Change |
| Australia | 9,904,266 | 10,026,975 | 1.24 | 122,709 |
| Brazil | 12,208,375 | 12,035,681 | -1.41 | -172,694 |
| France | 17,034,848 | 16,902,124 | -0.78 | -132,724 |
| Germany | 32,071,064 | 31,877,073 | -0.60 | -193,991 |
| Italy | 16,967,127 | 17,361,737 | 2.33 | 394,610 |
| Japan | 40,134,842 | 39,817,810 | -0.79 | -317,393 |
| Spain | 11,437,670 | 11,559,842 | 1.07 | 122,172 |
| Sweden | 4,739,069 | 4,651,538 | -1.85 | -87,531 |
| Switzerland | 3,577,870 | 3,604,622 | 0.75 | 26,752 |
| United Kingdom |
23,812,843 | 24,360,856 | 2.30 | 548,014 |
| United States |
143,784,919 | 143,428,291 | -0.25 | -356,628 |
| Total | 315,672,890 | 315,626,187 | -0.01 | -46,703 |
| Source: Nielsen//NetRatings, 2006 | ||||
