Active Home Web Use by Country, March 2006
Internet usage experienced a 2 percent growth in March.
The number of active Internet users continued to climb in March 2006 in all countries except Germany and the U.K. Data tracked by Nielsen//NetRatings reports the number of active users in 10 countries worldwide.
Australia (2.77 percent increase); Italy (1.54 percent); Japan (3.43 percent); and the U.S. (2.63 percent) rebounded from usage declines experienced in February with an uptake of new active users in March.
After experiencing a 4.12 percent spike in new active users in February of this year, Germany saw a decline of less than 1 percent.
All told, the Web saw 6.7 million new active home Internet users in March, compared to the previous month.
Nielsen//NetRatings uses a sampling methodology applied worldwide, which allows for data aggregation on a regional and global basis.
| Active Home Internet Users by Country, Febuary and March 2006 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country | February 2006 |
March 2006 |
Change (%) | One-Month Difference |
| Australia | 10,019,539 | 10,296,745 | 2.77 | 277,206 |
| Brazil | 13,240,648 | 14,106,651 | 6.54 | 866,002 |
| France | 17,466,601 | 17,769,232 | 1.73 | 302,631 |
| Germany | 33,191,582 | 32,954,008 | -0.72 | -237,574 |
| Italy | 16,842,540 | 17,101,383 | 1.54 | 258,843 |
| Japan | 39,420,270 | 40,774,175 | 3.43 | 1,353,905 |
| Spain | 11,851,496 | 12,128,204 | 2.33 | 276,708 |
| Switzerland | 3,698,692 | 3,726,726 | 0.76 | 28,034 |
| U.K. | 24,150,856 | 24,028,103 | -0.51 | -122,753 |
| U.S. | 140,665,990 | 144,358,901 | 2.63 | 3,692,911 |
| Total | 310,548,214 | 317,244,127 | 2.16 | 6,695,913 |
| Source: Nielsen//NetRatings, 2006 | ||||
