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This document is a case study on the inter-regional connectivity of Eastern Asia. The figure - Eastern Asia - depicts the countries considered to be part of East Asia. These are China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Mongolia and Taiwan.
Here we study the current capacity, infrastructure and opportunities that the users of these countries have to access the Internet. Followed by that we analyze the Internet performance as measured by the PingER project in comparison to the world and neighbouring countries. Later we compare the performance statistics to the Human Development Indices.
Current circumstances
As shown in the following two figures, currently, Asia contributes approximately 40% of the Internet users towards the total. Among these 40%, the major contributors are some of the East Asian countries such as China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.
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This is primarily because of the high levels of Internet penetration compounded by the population. South Korea features the highest Internet penentration level of 71.2% with Japan and Taiwan following closely at 68.7% and 67.4%. A summary of the statistics is listed in the table below. These statistics were gathered from Internet World Statistics.
Asia | Population | Internet Users | Internet Users | Penetration | % users in | Use growth |
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China | 1,321,851,888 | 22,500,000 | 210,000,000 | 15.9 % | 41.1 % | 833.3 % |
Japan | 127,433,494 | 47,080,000 | 87,540,000 | 68.7 % | 19.0 % | 85.9 % |
South Korea | 49,044,790 | 19,040,000 | 34,910,000 | 71.2 % | 6.8 % | 83.4 % |
Taiwan | 22,858,872 | 6,260,000 | 15,400,000 | 67.4 % | 3.0 % | 146.0 % |
North Korea | 23,301,725 | - | - | - | - | 0 % |
Mongolia | 2,951,786 | 30,000 | 310,000 | 10.5 % | 0.1 % | 933.3 % |
Pinger Coverage
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The map - PingER coverage of Eastern Asia highlights the Monitoring (Red), Beacon (Blue) and Remote (green) sites in the region. The distribution of these nodes is shown in Table - 1 below.
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