Please compare internet statistics (users, usage, penetration, speeds, price, 
pc penetration, bandwidth in homes (dial up, dsl, cable modem) in china, 
shanghai, and beijing with usa, san francisco, and other major cities.

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Request for Question Clarification by researcher-ga on 20 Apr 2002 10:14 PDT

are you asking for a country vs. country comparison or a major city vs. major 
city comparison?

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Clarification of Question by dj-ga on 20 Apr 2002 15:21 PDT

am asking for comparison of both country vs. country, and some major cities 
vs. major cities.  thank you.

Comparing Internet (or for that matter any type of) statistics across many 
different categories can always cause difficulty. Not all of the data is 
necessarily gathered at the same time, using the same conditions or the same 
methodologies. Please remember this as you read over these statistical 
comparison. The data below all occurs roughly in the same time period (ie. the 
same year) but the methods used to acquire that data depends on the study done 
and this answer does not go into depth about those differences. (Please see the 
individual data source for such information). Likewise, not all requested 
information from the question is listed here. Either because it is not 
available or the data sets come from vastly different time periods or methods 
that comparison would be rendered useless. The data gathered is dated from 
April to August 2000.

Let's first look at Internet statistics for the United States and China.

According to the United States 2000 Census (August 2000) and according to the 
China Internet Network Information Center's Semiannual Survey Report on the 
Development of China's Internet (July 2000) the following information is 
gathered:

There are 16.9 million Internet users in China
There are 94 million Internet users in US coming from 42 million Internet using 
households

There is a 1.32% Internet access penetration in China *1*
There is a 41.5% Internet access penetration of US households (civilian, 
noninstitutional)

Information on PC penetration could not be found for China
There is a 51% PC penetration in the US

There are 11.7 million users on dial-up access in China
37% of households (89.3% of online households) are on dial-up access in the US

There are 2.58 million users on broadband access in China
4.4% of households (10.7% of online households) are on broadband access in the 
US

In China an additional 2.56 million are on both dial-up and broadband access 
and are not included in the above 

numbers. So the numbers above can be adjusted to 14.26 million on dial-up and 
5.14 million on broadband in China.

Information on type of broadband could not be found for China
50.8% of broadband access is via cable modem in the US
33.7% of broadband access is via DSL in the US
4.6% of broadband access is via wireless/satellite in the US
10.9% of broadband access is via telephone-based connections (ie. ISDN) in the 
US

For China's statistics in July 2000, please visit 
http://www.cnnic.net.cn/develst/e-cnnic200007.shtml

For United States' statistics in August 2000, please visit 
http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/p23-207.pdf

Now let's look at Internet statistics for several major cities in both the 
United States and China.

The data on Beijing and Shanghai is from the same report that the country data 
for China is from. The data for New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco is from 
a Nielsen/NetRatings report. Please view findings from that report at 
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/2966.html

There are 3.16 million Internet users in Beijing
There are 1.82 million Internet users in Shanghai
There are 4.3 million Internet users in New York
There are 3.6 million Internet users in Los Angeles
There are 2.2 million Internet users in San Francisco

There is a 22.89% Internet access penetration in Beijing *2*
There is a 12.37% Internet access penetration in Shanghai *3*
There is a 53.75% Internet access penetration in New York *4*
There is a 37.82% Internet access penetration in Los Angeles *5*
There is a 61% Internet access penetration in San Francisco

Those are the statistical comparisons for China, United States and some major 
cities. If this is not to the extent you sought, please request an Answer 
clarification and request additional information or open an additional question.

Internet access penetration determination required a population statistic. This 
is where those population statistics were taken from:

*1* This number is based off a population statistic from the CIA World Factbook
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ch.html

*2* This number is based off a population statistic from a CNN.com article 
quoting key statistics for Beijing (2000)
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/07/12/beijing.profile.post/

*3* This number is based off a population statistic from a GWBN news clip about 
broadband rollout
http://216.239.35.100/search?
q=cache:U6jfPi8NANoC:www.gwbnet.com/CaseStudies/+shanghai+population+july+2000&h
l=en

*4* This number is based off a population statistic from the City of New York's 
Department of City Planning (April 2000)
http://216.239.35.100/search?
q=cache:TAv6zBlVpfcC:www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/home.html+%22new+york%
22+population+april+2000&hl=en

*5* This number is based off a population statistic from Regents of the 
University of California webpage (2000)
http://countingcalifornia.cdlib.org/counties/losangeles.html


Additional information:

China Internet Network Information Center's Semiannual Survey Report on the 
Development of China's Internet 
http://www.cnnic.net.cn/develst/repindex-e.shtml

United States Census Bureau: Computer Use and Ownership
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/computer.html

US Broadband Statistics
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/markets/broadband/article/0,1323,10099_766351,00.
html


Search terms used:
US Census internet usage
china population july 2000
beijing population july 2000
shanghai population july 2000
"san francisco" internet users stat
"new york" population april 2000
"los angeles" population april 2000

This is an interesting report from the Wireless Internet World 2001 
conference in Singapore :

http://www.nepalnews.com.np/contents/englishmonthly/businessage/
2001/june/world.htm

It  also goes into detail about China, and how it has 22 million internet 
users today, and is expected to be over 100 million by 2004.

Hi, 
    You might want to look at the CNNIC survey report on internet development 
in China 

http://www.cnnic.net.cn/develst/e-index.shtml 

and these links would be helpful too:

http://www.virtualchina.com/archive/infotech/analysis/chinanet-cnnic-1.html
http://www.tradeport.org/ts/countries/china/isa/isar0004.html

Cheers,
baju

hmm,
China is going to fast to be captured in statistics very well.
The number of actual Internet users was 33.7 million by the end of December 
2001, according to the already quoted China Internet Network Information Center 
(CNNIC)
http://www.chinabiz.org/articles/show.asp?id=1510