The number of people 15 and older on the Internet pass 1 billion in December, comScore said Friday.
Internet users from the Asia-Pacific region accounted for 41 percent of the total, while people logging on from Europe made up 28 percent.
North American Internet users, 185 million, added up to 18 percent and Latin American Web surfers accounted for 7 percent.
China, by itself, provides the largest national online audience, with 180 million people connected, or 18 percent of the worldwide total.
The U.S. is the second largest, with 16 percent and Japa follows with 6 percent.
“The second billion will be online before we know it, and the third billion will arrive even faster than that,” predicted comScore CEO Magid Abraham.
The most widely visited Net property was the Google sites, with 778 million visitors in December, followed by Microsoft, with 648 million visitors and Yahoo!, with 563 million visitors.
Posted by Mark Boslet 
