Overall, computer penetration rates are very similar to Internet penetration rates.

The internet penetration in Egypt is 16 .

Under normal circumstances and despite a high rate of literacy, Palestine's Internet penetration rate stands between 13 and 15 per cent (including both the West Bank and Gaza).

Table 2. Internet penetration by region and level of development,

This chart compares Internet and mobile penetration in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya

There are 3.4 million users of the internet in Singapore, one of the highest internet penetration rates in the world.

In a extremely connected world, Syria is still lagging behind The Internet was introduced to the public close to the year 2000 and currently the penetration rate stands at about 17 .

Internet penetration Social networking sites were critical to sustaining the momentum in the recent protests.

Well, fascinatingly, both Egypt and Tunisia have seen a massive growth in internet users and internet penetration over the last 10 years.

However, with 7.2 per cent penetration, only a small proportion of China's population uses the Internet.

The relatively low penetration rates shown in Europe can be explained by penetration rates in several South Eastern European countries while, according to Eurostat data, the average penetration rate in the EU15 is 50 per cent.

The recent years have witnessed a significant rise in internet penetration, particularly among young people in Lebanon.

CNN has an excellent map of Facebook and Internet penetration in the Middle East and North Africa here.

Blogger Andrew Trench recently presented a theory on the threshold of when Internet penetration starts to matter, writing

Both have now got internet penetration of over 20 and in Tunisia's case it was as high as 34 .

If Egypt and Tunisia are valid case studies, it looks like internet penetration of around 20 is the mark.

While in terms of the absolute number of Internet users developing countries already represent a very significant part of the global Internet, Internet penetration figures (i.e. users per 100 inhabitants) provide a different perspective into the relative access to the Internet.

GV Despite the low penetration rate in Mauritania, the country's presence on the web this year is noticeable.

This leaves further room for increasing Internet user penetration in developing countries, based on computer access, given the same number of computers.

In the absence of better data on the use of computers, the above figures suggest that the gap in computer use penetration rates between developed and developing countries is smaller than the gap in Internet user penetration rates.

The average level of Internet and mobile phone penetration in the rich world in 1997 4.1 Internet users and 10.7 mobile phones per 100 inhabitants was reached in developing countries only five years later.

In China, the second largest Internet market in 2004 as far as number of users is concerned, penetration is growing by 16.4 per cent.

Perhaps one reason for this is that we're still not that used to communicating via the 'net maybe we need greater broadband and internet penetration.

And yet, mobile penetration is higher across the region than Internet, with only Yemen, the occupied Palestinian territories, and Syria reporting fewer than 50 mobile subscribers.

For those interested in learning more about Internet penetration globally, there are two main organizations which track such data the International Telecommunications Union, and the World Bank.

Even 12 of India s population the extent of Internet penetration today makes the country the world s third largest online market, and also the fastest growing for its size.

Despite a broadband penetration rate of only 30 , e tail commanded 5 6 of total retail sales in China in 2012, on par with the US.

Those of you who've never looked at their website, you should look at it. It's really impressive. And you can see how the Internet penetration has changed over the years.

The Republic of Korea has overtaken the United States and now ranks number three worldwide (after New Zealand and Sweden), with a penetration rate of 65.7 per cent.

This can achieve high market penetration rates quickly.

Possibly still with a penetration of 900 mm.

There is no credible intelligence penetration of these organizations.

Moreover, market penetration in poor countries is rising sharply.

Other benefits include Long term storage and good tissue penetration.

Table 5. Mobile phone penetration by region and level of development,

It also puts at risk Turkey s robust economic penetration into Arab markets.

Finding a camera on airport road is not a security penetration, Aoun said.

Stated penetration for the 3UBR8 is 25 mm of RHA at 1,500 meters.

Asia is the only developing region that has reached any significant broadband penetration.

Thus, the question of information security gains in strategic importance as digital penetration increases.

Asia is now the continent with the largest Internet population, followed by Europe, while Africa experienced the highest growth rate between 2003 and 2004.

My back of napkin theory is this that a rapid increase in internet penetration in a repressive regime does play an important role as it provides an unfettered channel of communication allowing disaffected citizens to share views and more importantly to rapidly organise and mobilise.

If you look at the available data on degree of internet penetration, number of mobile cellular subscriptions per 100 people, percentage of population under the age of 15 and degree of urbanization, what jumps out is how the last three factors seem to matter more.

As a result, levels of import penetration actually fell, quite sharply, in virtually every country.

Saas is the most popular television show in Afghan history, with a 90 audience penetration.