According to the latest worldwide market study by International Data Corporation (IDC), 3.2 billion people, or 44 percent of the world's population, will have access to the Internet in 2016. More than 2 billion will be using mobile devices to do so. Growth in Internet access is taking place around the world, but some countries are seeing particularly rapid growth. Furthermore, the world's Internet users are performing a variety of activities online. China, India and Indonesia lead the way -- they will account for almost half of the new user gains in Internet access globally over the course of the next five years. The combination of lower-cost mobile devices and inexpensive wireless networks are making accessibility easier in countries with large low-income populations that could not previously afford to use the Internet. The total number of mobile Internet users is forecast to rise by approximately 2 percent annually through 2020, unless significant new methods of acces
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