Where can I find data on the number of internet hosts per country for 2000-2002?

Hi buffalo

The numbers can be staggering.  As of June this year, there are over
200 million Internet hosting services in the world.

Country - Current No. of Hosts  - in thousands
USA -  74894.5 
Japan -  11140.7 
Germany -  5545.84 
UK -  4037.73 
Canada -  5952.15 
Australia -  1770.51 
Finland -  1221.66 
Netherlands -  2683.65 
Sweden -  1716.62 
France -  2004.59 
Norway -  885.84 
Italy -  2468.35 
Taiwan -  2462.73 
New Zealand -  593.273 
Spain -  1735.72 
Denmark -  846.356 
South Africa -  377.900 
South Korea -  974.196 
Brazil -  1426.46 
Switzerland -  636.186 
Austria -  934.076 
Russian Federation -  454.2 
Belgium -  664.843 
Poland -  568.92 
Hong Kong -  1170.96 
Israel -  428.89 
Singapore -  371.913 
Czech Republic -  228.74
Hungary -  327.21 
Mexico -  836.219 
Portugal -  235.736 
Ireland -  144.773
Malaysia -  91.7033 
Greece -  198.22 
Turkey -  230.153 
Soviet Union  - 90.34 
Argentina -  398.66 
Chile -  167.12 
Iceland -  66.7066 -
China -  190.686 
Slovenia -  51.9066 
Thailand -  69.8366 
Estonia -  120.883 
Colombia -  66.01 
Slovakia -  65.5 
Uruguay -  74.74 
Indonesia -  32.0866
Romania -  70.64 
India -  90.6933 
Ukraine -  111.100 
Egypt -  35.2366 
Kenya - -
Costa Rica - -
Peru - -
Venezuela -  46.9133 
Philippines -  49.2733 
Latvia -  24.7233 
Lithuania -  20.7266 
Luxembourg - -
Dominican Republic -  31.58 
Africa -  305.523 
Asia -  8158.83 
Europe - 17952.3 
Oceania -  1976.68 
Central America -  613.203 
South America -  1745.97 
North America -  80845.9 

You can find the list here ( http://www.netsizer.com/ ) along with
other information about Internet growth including figures on growth
from Jan. 2000 thru June 2002.  In Jan. 200 there were 69.8 million
Internet hosts vs the 200 million plus Internet hosts today.  You will
also find the fastest growing hosting countries and their growth
rates, the largest countries, top 10 second level domains, and a lot
more.

If your browser is recent enough, you can watch the host figures grow
by the second.  It is that up to date.

If you need any further clarifications, please let me know.

Cheers
digsalot

Hi again buffalo

I have been finding this research to be fascinating so I am going to
add some more information as a comment.

First of all, another bit of news about the website I mentioned above.
 They do have an interactive tool for historical data which would
contain detailed information about growth rates among other things. 
Since you asked "where you could find" I thought I would include it
since I don't know just how important this information is to you.  It
might just be important enough that you would pay $5000 for a single
month's license to use the tool.  Material relating to Internet and
hosting growth is a high premium stock in trade for many.

"Global Internet Statistics (by Language)" - (
http://www.glreach.com/globstats/index.php3 )
While this page does not break down by country but by language groups,
I am including it as the material found here may help enrich any
report you are doing or research you are undertaking.  It is slightly
off topic for your question but often collateral information can be
just what is needed as a spark or direction pointer for additional
research.  The number of Internet hosts for each language is in the
right hand column.

"Internet Trends" - Here you will find plain text reports dating back
to 1966 which trace the growth of host numbers year by year and
country by country.  It seems to be exactly what your question was
about.

For example, in 1995 the United Arab Emirates had 11 hosts, in 1996 -
365 hosts, 1998 - 1,940 hosts, 2000 - 19,718 hosts, 2001 - 34,338
hosts, and so on and so on.

The search was Google
Key words - host growth statistics, Internet hosts by country,
Internet surveys, and Internet growth trends

Cheers again
digsalot

I have no real excuse, I simply forgot to add the URL for "Internet
Trends" above - ( http://www.ngi.org/trends.htm )
sorry!

digs

These figures can be misleading. They are not the number of hosting
services / companies that sell hosting, but rather:

What Do We Measure? 
We measure the number of named (in DNS) hosts, that is computers which
have a permanent IP address. It includes servers, workstations in
universities and businesses, ports in modem banks of Internet Service
providers, and so on. It does not, however, include a home computer
that would only get an IP address when it connects to a provider's
modem bank.
http://www.netsizer.com/info.html#sampling

This includes most computers that have a broadband connection - I am
one of those users, and I definitely to not consider my computer to be
a "host".