In fact, according to one astrophysicist who came up with a calculation for valuing planets, Earth is worth a bank-breaking $5 quadrillion dollars, unsurprisingly the priciest in the solar-system. Truth is, humanity cannot afford to replace the planet in a "your break it, you buy it" sort of situation.
The financial position of the United States includes assets of at least $269.6 trillion (1576% of GDP) and debts of $145.8 trillion (852% of GDP) to produce a net worth of at least $123.8 trillion (723% of GDP) as of Q1 2014.
No one actually owns the Internet, and no single person or organization controls the Internet in its entirety. The Internet is more of a concept than an actual tangible entity, and it relies on a physical infrastructure that connects networks to other networks.
The United States is the most central nation in the ownership network. American corporations account for almost 40% of the international links. A cluster analysis found a single group centered about the United States. The ownership network is consistent with other measures of the international Internet network.
Will the internet ever run out of space? The only constraint on the size of the internet is the number and capacity of the billions of servers supporting it – this number is constantly growing and so there is no real limit on the size of the internet.
"If you really wanted to turn off the global internet, you'd have to seek out people on every continent and every country," said Cowie from Renesys. "The internet is so decentralized that there is no kill switch." "No you can't do that," said Harvard's Faris. "The internet is designed to be robust.
The data of an average American is worth between $0.20 and $0.40. Facebook has about 190 million users in the U.S., so we estimate that Facebook can make between $38 million and $76 million from selling such data points on American users.
Countries Without Internet Access
- Belarus.
- Burma.
- China.
- Cuba.
- Egypt.
- Iran.
- North Korea.
- Saudi Arabia.
Internet users
| 2005 | 2017 |
|---|
| World population | 6.5 billion | 7.4 billion |
| Users worldwide | 16% | 48% |
| Users in the developing world | 8% | 41.3% |
| Users in the developed world | 51% | 81% |
Number of Internet users as of 2019
| Country or area | Internet users | Rank |
|---|
| China | 840,080,566 | 1 |
| India | 687,620,000 | 2 |
| United States | 244,090,854 | 3 |
| Brazil | 141,206,801 | 4 |
Although, compared to the other nations on this list,
Google has a higher penetration in 9 other
countries.
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- United States. Google: 87.28%
- China. Baidu: 70.26%%
- Japan. Google: 70.31%
- Germany.
- United Kingdom.
- India.
- France.
- Brazil.
Number of Internet users as of 2019
| Country or area | Internet users | Rank |
|---|
| China | 840,080,566 | 1 |
| India | 706,620,000 | 2 |
| United States | 244,090,854 | 3 |
| Brazil | 141,206,801 | 4 |
Today, there are 320 million more internet users in the world than there were a year ago. This growth is more than eight times faster than the overall population growth over the past year, which came in at 1 percent.
In 2012, we had 2.5 billion internet users. In 2014, this number reached the three-billion mark, and in 2019 we have 4.1 billion people online.
As of January 2019, East Asia accounted for one billion of the world's internet users, followed by Southern Asia with 803 million.
The World Wide Web is 25 years old today and this year the Internet is 45 years old. Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at CERN, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989.
Vietnam, China, Belarus, and Turkmenistan are included in the long list of countries that block certain sites or have very limited internet access.
Leading countries based on number of Facebook users as of January 2020 (in millions)
| Number of Facebook users in millions |
|---|
| India | 260 |
| United States | 180 |
| Indonesia | 130 |
| Brazil | 120 |
Is there free internet all over U.S? However, Internet access is available without payment from the end user at most public libraries in the United States, and complimentary Internet access is somewhat ubiquitous at commercial establishments, most notably Starbuck's.
So, which countries use social media the most? As of January 2019, Statista reported that the top 5 countries that have the highest social media penetration are the UAE at 99%, Taiwan at 89%, South Korea at 85%, Singapore at 79% and Hong Kong at 78%.
The age from ranging from 18-29 is the most dominant on average as internet users in USA. This was taken from "Internet User Demographic" survey conducted in 2014. For more and further stats visit = ( Internet User Demographics ) website.
As of 2018, the Philippines has the highest social media usage rate in the world, according to the 2018 Global Digital Report.
According to a 2015 study by digital marketing consultancy Further, users aged anywhere between 18 and 44 were most likely to be using Google to search the web.
Greenberg notes that while the deep web is vast and accounts for 90-something percent of the Internet, the dark web likely only accounts for about . 01 percent.
In 2019, an estimated 2.95 billion people were using social media worldwide, a number projected to increase to almost 3.43 billion in 2023. Social network penetration is constantly increasing worldwide and as of January 2020 stood at 49 percent.
Of the more than 8,000 teens surveyed in 2019, 41 percent chose Snapchat as their favorite social media platform (down from 45 percent in 2018) while 35 percent chose Instagram as their app of choice. Instagram is the most-used platform overall in the survey, even though more teen users preferred Snapchat.
Today around seven-in-ten Americans use social media to connect with one another, engage with news content, share information and entertain themselves.
3.48 billion social media users
There are 3.5 billion smartphone users in the world today (2020). Almost every third person worldwide owns a smartphone.
Social media usage is one of the most popular online activities and in 2019, 79 percent of the population in the United States had a social networking profile, representing a two percent increase from the 77 percent usage reach in the previous year.
There are now more than 3.8 billion social media users around the world, representing 49 percent of the world's total population.
"Over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every single day, and it's only going to grow from there. By 2020, it's estimated that 1.7MB of data will be created every second for every person on earth."
