Estimates of the global online population often differ by hundreds of millions, for example.

In 2008, the server would still reach an online population of 100-200 players.

China has an online population of 222.4 million people and 65.8% are said to participate in some form of file-sharing on websites.

Facebook is used by 30.4 million people in the UK, which works out as 79 per cent of the country's online population.

Today, nearly half of the global online population resides in the United States.

Non-English speakers make up nearly half of the online population, researchers say.

China is the largest media market in the world, and has the world's largest online population.

With international online populations the technical translator must be culturally diverse in a technological sense.

The government is also bringing the country's growing online population new services, from Internet auctions to electronic matchmaking.

Sawyer's report mentioned $84bn - such is the value of access to 34.8% of the world's online population.