According to Internet World Stat website, Asia leads in the world with One Billion people using internet. That is one sixth of the world population followed by Europe, 500 million people.
Africa is fifth after Latin America with 110 million people using internet services. When you come into penetration, North America is leading.
Although there has been a growth in internet users, Africa stands with 5.7 percent compared to 94.3 percent in the world. Africa has 118 million internet users the growth of five times bigger since 2006 from 22 million users.
Africa’s top internet countries per 2011 statistics are Nigeria followed by Egypt. In East Africa Kenya takes the lead with 44 percent, Tanzania without being mentioned.
Since 2007 the biggest growth of internet users has taken place in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria and lately Rwanda. The number of users has more than doubled within a year. The reason why Tanzania is lagging behind is language breakdown to use the internet effectively.
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