8 04 pm pdt [ internet ]

Matthew and I were pontificating on what percentage of Americans had never been on the internet. I said 25% and he went off on how it had to be less than that. So I tried to find out. I mostly came up with outdated statistics, but they are fascinating:

From 1999:

• Only 43% of U.S. households were online in 1999

• 66% of Americans age 18-29 had internet access

• just 13% of the over-65 population was wired

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From August 2000:

• Only 12.7% of households with incomes of $15,000 or less were accessing the Internet, compared with 77.7% of households with incomes of $75,000 or more.

• People with disabilities are only half as likely to access the Internet as those without disabilities.

• 56.8% of Asian American households were online
  46.1% of white households were online
  23.5% of black households were online
  23.6% of Hispanic households were online

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From 2003:

• 30% of Americans have never used the Internet, and 44% use it frequently

• 18% of Americans under the age of 35 have never been online

• over 55% of Americans 65 years of age and over have never been online

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Other stats:

• 88% of adult Russians have never used the Internet
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• October 2001 in the UK: 60% of women and 59% of men have never used the Internet; only 22% of those in poorly skilled social groups have been surfing compared with 68% of the professional classes.
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• April 2003: 38% of adults in Great Britain have never accessed the Internet
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• 40% of UK adults have never used the Internet
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• In 2000, 42% of Canadian adults had never used the Internet.
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• The number of people who have never used a computer in Estonia was 54% (±2.5%) of the inhabitants aged 15-74 in the fourth quarter of 2001. Non-users of the Internet form 63% (±2.5%).
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• In 2001, 90% of the world's population had never been on the Internet.
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