The diagram above shows the massive growth of internet usage across the world in the past 6 years.

Key points from the information:

• Internet Traffic is growing by about 50% anually with video and music streaming rising the fastest.  At the same time, the web is becoming divided along language lines.
• By 2012, Asian web surfers, including 490,000,000 Chinese, will outnumber North Americans by 3 to 1 and Indians will become the third-largest group online.

Source: Unkown – please claim credit in comments.