• The U.S.-based Network Wizards' Internet Domain Survey estimates the global rate of Internet expansion at between 40 and 50 per cent per year.
  
  
• In February 1998, there were nearly 30 million connected computers in 240 countries. Growth in developing countries like China is greater than average.
  
  
• More than 70 per cent of connected computers are in Canada and the U.S., where about a quarter of adults have online access. The third-most-wired country in the world is Australia.

Source: On-Line Access and Participation in Canadian Society, a report by Canadian Heritage, March 1998