Newsgroups: bit.listserv.nodmgt-l
Date:         Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:22:51 +0100
From:         Eric Thomas <ERIC@SEARN.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Bitnet-Internet mapping
              17 Nov 1992 08:01:03 -0600 from Node Management <NODMGT-L@UGA>

I decided to  change one of my statistics programs  to count ':internet.'
tags, ignoring the ones used only  for NJE aliases. The results are quite
interesting,  especially when  you  know from  experience  what the  real
density of Internet sites in the various countries is :-)

  Eric

         EARN/BITNET countries by number of nodes
                     Source: VERS9212

+----------------+------------------+--------------------+
| Country        | Number of nodes  | With :internet tag |
+----------------+------------------+--------------------+
| USA            |   2062 (60.2%)   |      563 ( 27%)    |
| Germany        |    175 ( 5.1%)   |       39 ( 22%)    |
| France         |    161 ( 4.7%)   |        -           |
| Italy          |    135 ( 3.9%)   |       10 (  7%)    |
| Canada         |    132 ( 3.9%)   |       90 ( 68%)    |
| Japan          |    118 ( 3.4%)   |        -           |
| Netherlands    |     84 ( 2.5%)   |       21 ( 25%)    |
| Brazil         |     63 ( 1.8%)   |        1 (  2%)    |
| Switzerland    |     52 ( 1.5%)   |        5 ( 10%)    |
| Israel         |     45 ( 1.3%)   |       36 ( 80%)    |
| Spain          |     36 ( 1.1%)   |        6 ( 17%)    |
| Turkey         |     32 ( 0.9%)   |        6 ( 19%)    |
| Belgium        |     27 ( 0.8%)   |       11 ( 41%)    |
| Finland        |     26 ( 0.8%)   |       19 ( 73%)    |
| Chile          |     24 ( 0.7%)   |        -           |
| Mexico         |     21 ( 0.6%)   |       12 ( 57%)    |
| Poland         |     21 ( 0.6%)   |        -           |
| Taiwan         |     19 ( 0.6%)   |        -           |
| Austria        |     18 ( 0.5%)   |        7 ( 39%)    |
| Sweden         |     18 ( 0.5%)   |       13 ( 72%)    |
| Korea          |     17 ( 0.5%)   |        -           |
| Argentina      |     14 ( 0.4%)   |        -           |
| Greece         |     12 ( 0.4%)   |        6 ( 50%)    |
| Czechoslovakia |     12 ( 0.4%)   |        3 ( 25%)    |
| Hongkong       |     11 ( 0.3%)   |        -           |
| Hungary        |      9 ( 0.3%)   |        -           |
| Columbia       |      8 ( 0.2%)   |        2 ( 25%)    |
| Ireland        |      8 ( 0.2%)   |        4 ( 50%)    |
| Saudi-Arabia   |      8 ( 0.2%)   |        -           |
| Denmark        |      7 ( 0.2%)   |        4 ( 57%)    |
| Singapore      |      5 ( 0.1%)   |        -           |
| Norway         |      5 ( 0.1%)   |        2 ( 40%)    |
| Yugoslavia     |      5 ( 0.1%)   |        -           |
| USSR           |      4 ( 0.1%)   |        -           |
| Egypt          |      3 ( 0.1%)   |        -           |
| Puerto Rico    |      3 ( 0.1%)   |        -           |
| Portugal       |      3 ( 0.1%)   |        2 ( 67%)    |
| Bulgaria       |      2 ( 0.1%)   |        -           |
| Cyprus         |      2 ( 0.1%)   |        -           |
| Ecuador        |      2 ( 0.1%)   |        -           |
| India          |      2 ( 0.1%)   |        -           |
| Great Britain  |      2 ( 0.1%)   |        1 ( 50%)    |
| Malaysia       |      2 ( 0.1%)   |        -           |
| Bahrain        |      1 ( 0.0%)   |        -           |
| Iceland        |      1 ( 0.0%)   |        1 (100%)    |
| Luxembourg     |      1 ( 0.0%)   |        -           |
| Tunisia        |      1 ( 0.0%)   |        -           |
| Costa Rica     |      1 ( 0.0%)   |        -           |
| Peru           |      1 ( 0.0%)   |        -           |
| Uruguay        |      1 ( 0.0%)   |        -           |
| Panama         |      1 ( 0.0%)   |        -           |
+----------------+------------------+--------------------+
| BITNET         |   2095 (61.2%)   |      575 ( 27%)    |
| EARN           |    909 (26.6%)   |      196 ( 22%)    |
| CAREN          |    154 ( 4.5%)   |        -           |
| NETNORTH       |    132 ( 3.9%)   |       90 ( 68%)    |
| ANSP           |     63 ( 1.8%)   |        1 (  2%)    |
| SCARNET        |     40 ( 1.2%)   |        -           |
| HARNET         |     11 ( 0.3%)   |        -           |
| GULFNET        |      9 ( 0.3%)   |        -           |
| RUNCOL         |      8 ( 0.2%)   |        2 ( 25%)    |
| ECUANET        |      2 ( 0.1%)   |        -           |
+----------------+------------------+--------------------+
| Total          |   3423 nodes     |
|                |     51 countries |
|                |     10 networks  |
+----------------+------------------+
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU