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Denmark most wired
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DENMARK is the world's most wired nation but Mexican men use the Internet far more than women, Internet measurement company Net Value said on Monday.
Denmark, with 54 per cent of its households connected to the Internet, took top spot among 12 nations surveyed.
The United States came in second with 50.9 per cent of its homes wired, trailed by Singapore (47.4 per cent), Taiwan (40 per cent) and South Korea (37.3 per cent), Net Value's January 2001 global Internet usage report showed.
China and Spain lagged behind with less than 18 per cent of households connected to the Internet, NetValue said.
The gender difference was most glaring in Mexico, where men make up almost 66 per cent of the country's Internet users. The United States boasted the greatest online equality with men making up 52 per cent of surfers.
Men and women differ in interests
The favourite male sites across the 12 countries involved cars, sports and pornography. Females flock to sites for women, fashion, beauty and electronic greeting cards, the report said.
Almost all the world's top sites are portals.
Asian countries take the lead in non-web activities such as audio-video use, chats, file transfers, games, instant messaging and news.
But Denmark has the greatest concentration of e-mail users at 73.4 per cent of its population.
South Korea stands out among Asian countries with half of its Internet population using online games, four times more than Taiwan which came in second place with 12 per cent.
South Korea also tapped into the Internet's audio-video capability more than twice as much as all other markets.
The other countries surveyed were France and Britain.
(SD-Agencies)
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