which african country has the highest start ups

NIGERIA, KENYA AND SOUTH AFRICA HAVE THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF START UPS IN AFRICAN CONTINENT

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Nigeria and India leads mobile web traffic while ,UK& US ranks 17th and 19th

NIGERIA INDIA AND SOUTH AFRICA leads as nations with highest internet traffic from Mobile .Indonesia,Poland and Turkey makes up 3th to 6th rank. China ranks  9th in terms of mobile web traffic with 33% internet traffic coming from mobile. UK and US ranks 17th and 19th respectively

Global mobile internet traffic is led by Nigeria , whose mobile internet consists of 76%followed by India with 65% internet traffic coming from mobile web. Number 3 was South Africa with 57% of their web traffic coming from online mobile internet

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African digital indicators : 900 million and counting,mobile penetration set to to touch 80%

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The African mobile markets have been  one of the fastest growing across the world with an exploding mobile  market . One of the reason for this overnight increase in mobile users have  been " the lack of investment in  setting up  technical  infrastructure  for land lines and   wireless networks by these countries .The  African mobile market  has entirely been facilitated by investments in mobile networks  rather than the conventional  land line to mobile transformation.

 

Around 298 million  Africans  have internet access  with a mere 9% social media users  ( 103m) .Its mobile users exceed 900million with a 79% penetration.

Meanwhile a mere 7% use mobile to log into  their social media accounts 

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eCommerce trends indian subcontinent ,middle east and north african markets

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These are the places where you can find the biggest internet addicts

These are the nations where you can find the worlds greatest internet addicts

who spends the most of their waking time online . The above chart lists out the nations where you can find the most internet addicts.  Brazil takes the first rank with 71% of their users who can be found online  at least once every hour, Nigeria is no 2  with 66% of its users online atleast once a hour. South Africa  Russia and India  takes the 3rd, 4th and 5th spot 

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The fastest growing smartphone markets by penetration rates

These nations  are the fastest growing smartphone markets 

Brazil India, China,Vietnam, Indonesia are among the fastest growing markets in terms of smartphone penetration

As chinese mobile usage exceeds 1.25billion, not to be outdone  Indian mobile penetration has increased a manifold since 2013. A ccording to Forbes ,Mobile advertising volume in India grew the fastest in the world, climbing a record 260% since July 2013. Another report by research firm IDC pegs  Indian smartphone growth rate at over 82% and  says that India continues to be the fastest growing smartphone market in the Asia Pacific. Indonesia is another powerhouse which will surpass 100million active smartphone users by 2018 according to techniasia

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Nigeria India and South Africa leads with highest Mobile Traffic by Country

mobile  web share of internet traffic by country

Nigeria , India and south Africa leads Mobile Traffic by Country

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Sub Saharan Region is the world next biggest mobile Goldmine,mobile web to see 20 times growth

Recent  research report published by Ericsson  on the state of mobile market in sub saharan region showed many suprises. It  clearly shows that Sub-Saharan Africa is currently undergoing a mobile digital revolution with consumers, networks and even media companies wakening up the possibilities of 3G and 4G technology   with the growth of mobile web, digital traffic  has recorded a 100% increase over the last 12 months.

 Most African users go  mobiles for online activities to  overcome a weak or non existent Internet  /landlines infrastructure across  large swaths of the world's poorest continent

However make no mistake about this ..Africa is where the next  mobile gold mine lies . and its claim to be the Mobile Continent is  increasingly becoming a possibility  with researchers predicting a  20-fold  increase in the "Mobile Web" in the next 5 years, which  is  200% higher (double the rate of growth in the rest of the world. ) than other nations 

Mobile Growth in Sub Saharan Countries : Why it is next biggest market from Sumit Roy

Recent Data released by Ericsson   forecasts that there will be more than 635m mobile subscriptions in sub-Saharan Africa ( the pdf below explains how this will be happening ). This is predicted to rise, to about million  by late 2019, when it is estimated that three in four mobile subscriptions will be exclusive for mobile web.

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India and Nigeria records fastest growth in INTERNET usage,with 14% and 16% one year growth

According to the latest Internet usage across the world data from internetlive( source). The world will see billion online users by end of 2014

Around 40% of the world population has an Internet connection today (view all on a page ). In 1995, it was less than 1%.

The first billion was reached in 2005. The second billion in 2010. The third billion will be reached by the end of 2014. The number of internet users has increased tenfold from 1999 to 2013.

Among the top 10 nations which highest number of  online users . India and Nigeria has recorded the biggest growth in  the last one year with 14% and 16% respectively.

 In terms of web penetration , among the top 10 list, UK,US, ranks 1st  and 2nd, while  Japan and Germany shared the  3rd spot   with 86% penetration 

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