Date: September 7, 2012
With a huge population in India surfing Internet, here are some Interesting Facts about Demographics and Internet Population of India
« 1996 - First Cyber Cafe Opened in India
« 1998 - 1.4 Million Internet Users in India
« 2012 - Internet Users of 121 Million (this is 10% of Entire Population of India)
« 2014 (Estimate) - Google Estimates 200 Million New Internet Users in Next 2 years in India (taking total population over 300 Million of Internet Users in India)
« By End of 2014 - India Expected to emerge as World 3rd Largest Internet Users base (in Numbers) after China and America.
« Over 50 Million Facebook Users in India. Of which over 60% of users are less than 25 years old
« Over 90% of the Internet Users use Net to check Emails and Social Networking Sites as part of there regular usage.
« Every 1 out of 3 users has Facebook Account. 1 out of 7 has Twitter Account and 1 out of 8 Users has Linked in Account
« 70% of Internet Users in India is under 35 years of Age, against world average of 52%
« Mumbai has 8 Million Internet Users followed by Delhi as 6 Million and then Kolkatta at 3 Million
« Less than 5% of Rural Indian Population (Tier 3 and other Cities) use Internet and 24% of Urban India uses Internet (Tier 1,2 Cities)
« Over 4.5 Lac searches/month happens for Second Hand Cars (Buying and selling)
« Over 3 Lac searches happens every month related to Car Prices
« Over 1.35 Lac searches happens every month related to Car Loans
« Over 1.2 Lac Searches/month happens for Maruti Cars and over 60,000 searches for Hyundai Cars in India
Disclaimer - Source taken through hundreds of websites, online Articles and can not be referred as 100% accurate or correct. The information attempted a summary without any comparison or bias. Data as on in 2012 and will completely be changed in coming years.
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