Mapping the world’s 4.3 billion Internet addresses - The Washington Post
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IP addresses per person
Using IP addresses to judge the intensity of a population’s Internet experience is inexact. Some countries have an abundance of addresses because they claimed them early on, when there was thought to be an inexhaustible supply. North Korea, some researchers believe, might be tapping China’s pool of addresses. And none of the analysts we spoke with were able to explain why, exactly, the highest per-person numbers in the world are put up by the Vatican and the tourist destination Seychelles. But, says Geoff Huston, chief scientist at the Asia-Pacific Information Center, which distributes IP addresses in that part of the world, “the number of addresses per capita shows a lot about the degree to which a nation is capable of capitalizing on an information economy.”
