India Takes The Lead Against China In Internet User Additions

ndia is supposed to have the fastest growing Internet market among the BRIC nations according to a report by Industry body ASSOCHAM and research firm Comscore. They released a collaborative report which suggests that India is growing very fast, having added some 18 million Internet users during the last year. That is certainly a very increase and India ranks ahead of other BRIC nations Brazil, Russia and China.

There seems to be a sort of boom in the Internet demographics with 75% of the Indian Internet users being in the age group of 15-34. The report says that the annual rate of growth in terms users is at 41% annually and could reach 124 million users next July.

The report also points out that the time spent by Indians on the Internet has increased by 33% over the period of one year. The total minutes spent by all Indian Internet users have amounted to 48 billion minutes! People are surfing and accessing 70 billion pages a month these days as opposed to 54.6 billion pages in July 2011. The top five categories in terms of Internet surfing are e-commerce, social networks, search, entertainment and news.