What percentage of society uses the web? Please break down the answer
continent, gender & by age group (0-10 yrs, 11-19 yrs, 20 -29 yrs, 30
- 39 yrs etc to 90 + years).

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 22 Apr 2003 12:07 PDT

Some of this information is probably available.  But how flexible are
you in your needs?  It's not likely anyone can find the exact age
categories you specified.

Also, the data might be available by age, by gender, by country....but
not likely all together at the same time (that is, you won't find data
on female users in China who are 11-19 years old).   Is that OK?

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Clarification of Question by blue_heron-ga on 22 Apr 2003 12:14 PDT

Yes exceptions to the requested answer are OK! Simply asterisk the exception.

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Clarification of Question by blue_heron-ga on 22 Apr 2003 13:15 PDT

I am flexible. Basically the answer I seek will give a picture of the
internet users of the world excluding Antarctica of course.

Well I just finished up about an hour of research on this. Didn't
think it would be quite this hard, but I guess it is getting really
difficult to find free internet statistics as there are so many
e-businesses willing to pay for them. I found many reports that were
pretty dated and did not seem to be worthwhile.  I was able to come up
with some fairly recent information. I did not find one comprehensive
report, but several different ones that put together will give you a
good picture. At the bottom I've included a link to the largest
collection of free stats that I could find.

U.S. Online Population by Age (Feb-March 2002)
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/geographics/article/0,,5911_1011491,00.html#table

Here is an undated University report that breaks down Internet usage
by age, race, gender and other criteria:
http://www.webuse.umd.edu/handouts/tutorial/SDA-GSS_Tutorial.pdf

Internet Users Broken down by country (2002 with projections to 2004)
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/geographics/article/0,1323,5911_151151,00.html


Internet Usage Patterns by Gender - December 2001
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/demographics/article/0,,5901_959421,00.html#table

Internet Users by Age and Race (December 2000)
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/demographics/article/0,,5901_942621,00.html#table2

Internet users broken down by language:
http://www.glreach.com/globstats/


Lots of different stats:
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/stats_toolbox/article

Hope all of this helps!
-shiva777