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Who’s Online Caribbean?

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16 years ago

June 29, 2008

With just under 40 million people living in the English, Spanish and French Caribbean, only 5.2 million or 15% of them are online, according to the stats from internetworldtstats.

By just looking at raw numbers, the Caribbean countries on top are Dominican Republic with 1,5million people online,Jamaica(1.06m),Puerto Rico(1m),Haiti (600,000), Cuba(190,000) and Barbados and Trinidad (160,000). But when you look at the internet penetration rates which indicates the percentage of the country’s population are internet users in the region and compare, what you see is Barbadosleading in the region with 59.8%, then Antigua 40%, Jamaica 39.4%, Aruba 34.1% and St Lucia 32%.

It is interesting to note that the Caribbean’s overall internet penetration rate is three percent below the world average and also that of Central America, both are 18%.

Additionally, a quick look at where things are worldwide shows, The United States leads the world with 69% internet penetration…not hard to see why they have dominated the online culture and commerce for so long. Then there is Asia which has 11.8% percent of their population online and Europe 39.8%.