China is expected to rival Japan as the Asian country with the most
Internet users, while the Asia-Pacific region will account for more than
a quarter of the world's online population by 2004, a report has
found.
Online researcher eMarketer found Japan's 36 per cent share of the
Internet population would fall to 18.5 per cent by 2004, as users in
China rise to 17.4 per cent of the total number of users in Asia.
Asia's total Internet population, the report forecast, would jump from
49 million last year to 173 million by 2004, raising Asia's share of the
world's online population to 27 per cent.
