Fact: North America accounts for only 20.9% of total Internet usage

I know with all the hype it is easy to build stuff for your friends or people in your region because that is whom we connect best with.

Yet knowing at the back of the mind that North America accounts for only about a fifth of the total Internet usage can help give a new perspective when we're thinking of ideas for the long-term.

Additional trends I noticed:

- Only 16.9% of the world population is currently online. That is after a 208.7% growth between 2000 and 2007.

- Africa, with three times the population of North America, has a mere 3.6% of its population online. That is after a 638.4% growth between 2000-2007.

- Asia, the largest region with 3.7 billion people, has merely 10.7% of the people on the Internet. That is after a 248.8% growth between 2000-2007.

But what are the stats for actual revenue/money spent/business done online, for each country?

What is the online buying power/marketability of US/UK/Euroland vs. other countries?

users, not usage