The chart sheds light on the high-speed internet connectivity of households in five different nations over the course of two years.
Overall, it can be seen that by 2002, the US had the highest average of internet connected households, while Germany had the lowest. Furthermore, over the two consecutive years, Britain experienced the greatest percentage change in internet connections per household, while South Korea had the smallest fluctuation.
In 2001, South Korea had the most high speed internet connected households , at 122 per 1000 people, while the United States ranked second at 93 connections. High speed internet connections were much less common for Britain, Switzerland and Germany at 3.3, 3.6 and 3.4 per 1000 people respectively.
Over the course of the next year, the number of families with high speed connections in the US climbed by 170 percent to 251.1 connections per 1000 people, almost double that of South Korea in the same year. Meanwhile, despite experiencing a 230 percent surge, only 10.89 per 1000 people in Britain had high speed internet access by 2002. Nonetheless, this was higher than the figures for Germany and Switzerland, who only managed 5.616 and 7.92 per 1000 people respectively.