Asia

Afghanistan

• Total population: 29,121,286

• Internet usage: 1,000,000, or 3.4% penetration.

• User growth from 2000 to 2010 is unknown.

• The most popular search engine is Google with close to 89.1% of the search market; other international players such as Bing and Yahoo! have around 5% each.

• No local search engines or directories register according to StatCounter Global Stats.

• Internet usage has dramatically increased since 2002, growing from close to nothing to what it is today.

Armenia

• Armenia has a population of about 2,966,802.

• Internet usage was about 208,200, or 7% penetration in 2010.

• Armenia’s Internet use is slowly increasing.

• User growth from 2000 to 2010 was about 594%.

• Google’s market share was about 90.34% in August 2010, and Yandex RU was about 5.96% of the market.