51% of the total population in FYRMacedonia i.e. 1,057,400 people used Internet in August this year, while 742,400 had profiles on the social network Facebook, show data provided by Internet World Stats - a specialised web site on statistics.

The number of Internet users in FYRMacedonia in the past decade has increased by 3.424% i.e. from 30,000 in 2000 to over a million in 2010.

In the region, Slovenians and Serbians use more Internet than Macedonians - 64.8% and 55.9% respectively, while Croatians (50%), Greeks (46.2%), Montenegrins (44.1%), Albanians (43.5%) and the citizens of BiH (31.2%) use less Internet.

In Europe there are 475 million Internet users. The global online network in percentages in used the most in Iceland (97.6%) and Norway (94.8%) and in Vatican and Kosovo only 11.2% and 20.8% respectively.