The U.S. in 1997 Had One Internet Computer for Every Twenty-Three People

• In 1997 the U.S. had one internet computer for every twenty-thre people.
  
• But even then the U.S. was not the most "wired" nation: Finland had one internet computer for every fifteen people.
  
• The number of internet "hosts" per capita in the United States is growing at more than fifty percent per year.
  
• The number of internet "hosts" per capita in other major industrialized countries--Britain, Germany, Japan, Canada--is growing even faster, but from a lower base.

 

Source: Robert Atkinson and Ranolph Court (1999), "The New Economy Index" (Washington: PPI); http://www.neweconomyindex.org/