Look at these amazing statistics. They really do put the internet and the world into perspective.
The stats show how big some internet companies have become, but also reveal how dwarfed their daily visitors are when compared with the extraordinary mass of people in China.
If, for example, the Google and Facebook dotcoms were countries, they would each have bigger populations than Brazil - and their combined population would, amazingly, outstrip the USA (by more than two countries the population size of the UK)!
But, put all the dotcoms mentioned here together and they would
not come close to the population of China - falling short by a huge 581 million (more than the combined populations of the USA, Russia and Japan).
dv = daily visitors (some pop figures are 2009!)
China: 1,331.5 million population
India: 1,155.3 million
United States: 310 million
Google: 236 million dv
Facebook.com: 200.5 million dv
Brazil: 194 million
Russia: 141.8 million
YouTube.com: 130.6 million dv
Japan: 127 million
Yahoo.com: 119.6 million dv
France: 62.6 million
United Kingdom: 62 million
Twitter.com: 50 million dv
Canada: 33.7 million
Australia: 22 million
BBC.co.uk: 10.7 million dv
Portugal: 10.5 million
Mexico City: 8.8 million
New York City: 8.1 million
London: 7.5 million
Norway: 4.9 million
New Zealand: 4.3 million
Brighton and Hove: 0.256
Number of people who watched the royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton according to the New York Times: (estimate give or take 500 million) 3,000 million (more than China, India, USA and the UK together!). Hard to believe as there are 7,000 million people on the planet.
And, finally, the estimated number of insects in the world: 10,000,000,000,000 million - that's a lot of bites!
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