Fact file
japan

• Population of the country: 127,417,244 (July 2005, est.)
• Internet connections: 57.2 million (2002)
• Telephone lines: 71.149 million (2002)
• Mobile connections/users: 86,658,600 (2003)
• Number of Internet hosts: 12,962,065 (2003)
• Broadband households: 32,244,000 (36.2%)
• Internet users: 70,072,000 Internet users
• Internet utilization: 98.1% (End of 2004)
• Internet utlization - Business: 81.8% (End of 2004)
• Internet utilisation rate of mobile phone users: 78.8% [highest in the world