Statistics of Internet Usage in the Arab World (MENA Region)
For whom having questions like “what are the number of internet users in the Arab world”, “Who is the biggest online market in the MENA region?”, I tried to find answers. I collected the following information from the Internet World Stats website.
List of Internet Usage statistics in the Arabic Countries
Here is a list of the Arabic countries with their internet usage statistics ordered from the highest usage to the lowest (by the latest data):
| Population (2009 Est.) | Usage, in Dec/2000 | Internet Usage, Latest Data (2009) | % Population (Penetration) | User Growth (2000-2009) | (%) of Table | ||
| 1 | Egypt | 78,866,635 | 450,000 | 12,568,900 | 15.9% | 2693.1% | 18.7% |
| 2 | Morocco | 31,285,174 | 100,000 | 10,300,000 | 32.9% | 10200.0% | 15.3% |
| 3 | Saudi Arabia | 28,686,633 | 200,000 | 7,700,000 | 26.8% | 3750.0% | 13.4% |
| 4 | Sudan | 41,087,825 | 30,000 | 4,200,000 | 10.2% | 13900.0% | 6.2% |
| 5 | Algeria | 34,178,188 | 50,000 | 4,100,000 | 12.0% | 8100.0% | 6.1% |
| 6 | Syria | 21,762,978 | 30,000 | 3,565,000 | 16.4% | 11783.3% | 6.2% |
| 7 | United Arab Emirates | 4,798,491 | 735,000 | 2,922,000 | 60.9% | 297.6% | 5.1% |
| 8 | Tunisia | 10,486,339 | 100,000 | 2,800,000 | 26.7% | 2700.0% | 4.2% |
| 9 | Jordan | 6,269,285 | 127,300 | 1,500,500 | 23.9% | 1078.7% | 2.6% |
| 10 | Kuwait | 2,692,526 | 150,000 | 1,000,000 | 37.1% | 566.7% | 1.7% |
| 11 | Lebanon | 4,017,095 | 300,000 | 945,000 | 23.5% | 215.0% | 1.6% |
| 12 | Oman | 3,418,085 | 90,000 | 465,000 | 13.6% | 416.7% | 0.8% |
| 13 | Qatar | 833,285 | 30,000 | 436,000 | 52.3% | 1353.3% | 0.8% |
| 14 | Bahrain | 728,709 | 40,000 | 402,900 | 55.3% | 907.3% | 0.7% |
| 15 | Yemen | 22,858,238 | 15,000 | 370,000 | 1.6% | 2366.7% | 0.6% |
| 16 | Palestine(West Bk.) | 2,461,267 | 35,000 | 355,500 | 14.4% | 915.7% | 0.6% |
| 17 | Libya | 6,324,357 | 10,000 | 323,000 | 5.1% | 3130.0% | 0.5% |
| 18 | Iraq | 28,945,569 | 12,500 | 300,000 | 1.0% | 2300.0% | 0.5% |
| 19 | Eritrea | 5,647,168 | 5,000 | 200,000 | 3.5% | 3900.0% | 0.3% |
| 20 | Somalia | 9,832,017 | 200 | 102,000 | 1.0% | 50900.0% | 0.2% |
| 21 | Mauritania | 3,129,486 | 5,000 | 60,000 | 1.9% | 1100.0% | 0.1% |
| 22 | Gaza Strip | 1,551,859 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| TOTAL | 349,861,209 | 2,515,000 | 54,615,800 | 20.8% | 5836.9% |
The biggest Market
Egypt’s Internet users are the highest number with 12,568,900 users which is 18.7% of the total Arab Internet users, followed by Morocco and Saudi Arabia.
Statistics of internet usage in Arab world - Arabic users number
Internet Usage Penetration
The following chart shows that the UAE has the highest percentage of population in using Internet, followed by Bahrain and Qatar:
Statistics of internet users numbers penetration in Arab countries (percentage of population)
The highest growth online
Even being at the bottom of the Penetration list, Somalia has the highest growth by achieving 50,900% (from 200 users to 100,000 in about 9 years), followed by Sudan and Syria:
Statistics of Internet usage growth in Arab countries
Still wondering how much these numbers are accurate, but it may give an overview of the situation in our Arab world.
Samer Baydoun's Blog 
also find the below information about the internet usage between Egypt and African countries and some important compression
http://blog.flair-systems.com/2010/03/internet-users-as-percentage-of.html
thank u Samer Baydoun 4 this informations
dear samer there is a little mistake in the title it is development and not developEment.
regards
Thanks a lot Eli, I just fixed it.