BANGLADESH, NIGERIA TOP GROWING INTERNET MARKET


By June 2016, according to Internet World Stats, Bangladesh and Nigeria were the fastest growing internet users market in the world.

According to the figures available on line, Bangladesh had a total of 63.3m internet users by June which came to 63190% growth since 2000 to lead the world in terms of growth.

And there is still a lot of room for it to continue to grow with the right policies. This is because this users figure represented only 38.9% of Bangladesh population.

As for Nigeria, it came out second fastest growing internet users market by June with 97.2m internet users representing 48505% growth since year 2000. 

However, unlike Bangladesh, this was already 52% of its population of estimated 187m people. Meaning there is less room for growth in the future when compared to Bangladesh.

There is still plenty of room for growth though, according to most current data released by the National Bureau of statistics on telecommunications in the country.

From the data, by the third quarter of this year, 13m of Nigeria's internet users were based in Lagos followed by Ogun with 5.64m; Oyo 4.95m Kano 4.46m and Abuja with 4.36m.

Indeed, 17 of the 36 states of the federation recorded drops in internet users in the third quarter when compared to second quarter. Thirteen of these States were in the North, three in South West, one in South East and none from South South.

Other nations with leading users growth since 2000 include Phillipines with 54m users up 24431.9% since 2000 and Iran which at 56.7m users had recorded 22580% growth also since year 2000.

Talking of countries with potential for a lot more growth in the near future, India surely stands out. It has a population of above one billion people and only 36.5% were internet users by June 2016.

China too still has room for growth although, like Nigeria, internet users now stand at above 52% of its very huge population.

Some countries are already getting saturated. They include the UK where users already make up 93.5% of population, South Korea with 92.1%; Japan(91%); Germany (88.9%); USA(88.6%) and France with 83.6%.

The average for the whole world was 50.1% and of the top 20 internet users market in the world ( which includes Nigeria at 8th position), only India, and Bangladesh were below this average. The rest of the world were the ones who have some catching up to do to improve on their average penetration of 40.1%.



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