One-Third of the World's Population Online by the End of 2010

This whole Internet thing is really catching on. The number of people online has doubled in the last five years to two billion, and will reach one-third of the world’s population by the end of 2010, according to statistics from the International Telecommunications Union. Connection in the developing world is growing at a faster clip, but only 21 percent of people in developing countries will be online, as opposed to 71 percent in developed countries.