Latest: S. Korea still has the highest percentage of Internet users

Google just announced that 17 World Development Indicators can now be searched in Google search.

Therefore you will see this in Google search result if you look for Internet users of a country:

I’ve always been paying attention to World Bank as they have good amount of high quality data visualization and very useful data.
With Google’s power, I pulled up the graph above in no time using Google’s visualization tool. As you can see, 77.1% of South Korea’s population uses the Internet, it’s the highest in the world followed by the States with 72.4%. China went up quickly in 2006 and still growing rapidly.

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    Is this skewed reporting or merely poorly informed? South Korea is not in the lead by a long shot. Yes, of the lines shown it is, but there are quite a few countries in the world that aren't shown and beat them by a margin. Greenland and the Netherlands have been far above the line since as early as 2003.
  • Yes he's the Gapminder guy, right?
    I think the world bank one is inspired by it
  • Awesome! The Google Public data graphs look really neat. Thanks for pointing us to it.

    Your World Bank data visualization tool looks really familiar. Have you seen the TED talks by Hans Rosling? Here's a link: http://www.ted.com/speakers/hans_rosling.html
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