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The number of internet users in Africa passed 139 million by 31 December 2011, up 112 percent on the same date in 2009, Arabian Business.com reported citing research from Internet World Stats. By the end of 2011, some 13.5 percent of the continent's population was using the internet, compared with a global average of about 36 percent. Africa, which has a population of over 1.037 billion people, increased its share of the world's internet users to 6.2 percent. According to the report, Nigeria, Egypt and Morocco topped the poll in terms of internet users, with 45 million, 21.7 million and 15.7 million users respectively. Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania followed with 10.5 million, 6.8 million and 4.9 million internet users respectively. In terms of internet use as a percentage of the population, Morocco topped the poll, with 49 percent of people there going online, followed by Tunisia (33.9%), Nigeria (28.3%), and Kenya (25.5%). Countries with very low internet usage rates include Ethiopia, which has a population of 90.7 million people and just 622,000 internet users, representing 0.7 percent of the population. Similarly, just 1.6 percent - or 676,000 – of Tanzania's 42.7 million people are internet users. Internet World Stats gathers its information from sources including ITU, Nielsen, Gfk and local regulators. Its population figures are based on figures from the US Census Bureau.

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Internet use in Africa passes 139 mln mark