Difference between revisions of "Number of Internet Users"

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The Number of Internet Users refers to the active population using the internet in any given year. As of spring 2021, there were 4.57 billion people using the internet.^[1]

According to Statista, "In 2019, the number of internet users worldwide was 3.97 billion, up from 3.74 billion in the previous year."^[2] In 2005, only about 1.1 billion people used the internet. That means there has been drastic and extraordinary growth in internet usage in the last 15 or so years, since it has more than tripled since then.

India in particular is rapidly rising to internet prominence: "Internet penetration in India reached 50% at the start of 2020. Meaning, already half of the population in India uses the internet. This is a rather fast jump, looking at the fact that in 2015, only 19% of Indian population was actively using the internet at 243 million users."

"It is unrealistic to expect that internet adoption will nearly triple in the next five years like it did in the last five. Nevertheless, even with a slower growth rate, Atlas VPN projections reveal that by 2025, India will reach 1 billion active web surfers." ^[3] The increasing number of web users offers vast potential for Internet evangelism.

"Looking ahead, Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that there will be 6 billion Internet users by 2022 (75 percent of the projected world population of 8 billion) — and more than 7.5 billion Internet users by 2030 (90 percent of the projected world population of 8.5 billion, 6 years of age and older)."^[4]

As of 2023, the number of Internet Users has crossed an amazing 5 Billion Souls: "How many people use the internet daily in 2023? 5.07 billion people use the internet daily." ^[5] The potential for Online Evangelism in this context is massive and must be realized quickly.

Center for Online Evangelism explaining the necessity for Today's Evangelists to cast a "different kind of Net" - use the Internet

"Can you guess what happened in the last 60 seconds online?

1 million people logged onto Facebook.

3.8 million searches were made on Google.

4.5 million videos were viewed on YouTube.

And 347,222 users were scrolling on Instagram.

That’s a lot of activity.

But I’m curious to know how many of those people read a blog or watched a video that told them more about Jesus?

With so much online activity, our church needs to employ digital evangelism methods."^[6]

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