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A new report from market analysis firm JupiterResearch forecasts that the online population will increase from 1.1 billion users in 2006 to 1.5 billion users in 2011, representing about 22 percent of the world’s overall population, or just over one in five individuals. Much of the growth will come from developing economies like Brazil, Inida, China, and Russia.

"China and India, given their large population base will provide the most substantial push to the worldwide online population," explained Vikram Sehgal, Research Director at JupiterResearch, and lead analyst on the report. "In these countries, increased infrastructure development and relatively higher purchasing power from rapid growth of gross domestic product will coincide with increased consumer adoption of the Internet through 2011."