The researcher analyzes the progress of the industrial economic development of Germany from 1860 to 1932 ot the basis of empirical material.Using collected statistics and computed indizes he examined wheter the trend of German´s industrial production of goods shows a declining trend of structural nature, or whether the assumption is confirmed that a major upswing is still to come. At first the precise production development with all its structural auxiliary processes is described.After that, the relative development is analysed, in fact by using the industrial development abroad, the development of different induatrial groups, and the development of typical individual industrial goups as standard of comparison.From the entirety of these relations the researcher tries to assess the direction of development of German industry. Importan indizes are as follows: index number of German industrial production from 1913 to 1931 (1928 = 100) Index number of German industrial production from 1860 to 1913 (1913 = 100) and International production figures from 1913 to 1931 (1928 = 100). List of Tables in the search and downloadsystem HISTAT (Historical Statistics, www.histat.gesis.org):- Development of industrial production in key countries, index (1860-1913)- Index of German industrial production (1860-1913)- Index of German industrial production (1913-1931)- Production and export of German Industry (1913-1931)- International production index (1860-1913)- International production index (1913-1931) Timeseries are downloadable via the online system HISTAT (www.histat.gesis.org).

This dataset provides values for INTERNATIONAL INTERNET BANDWIDTH MBPS WB DATA.HTML reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

This dataset provides an in-depth look at global demographic trends spanning a century, offering detailed insights into population growth, age-gender structure, and dependency changes over time. It is designed to support a wide range of analytical applications, from academic research in demographics to policy-making and socio-economic planning.

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In Carriers of Growth? Ann Coenen exposes the wide-ranging impact of international trade on economic development in the eighteenth-century Southern Low Countries. The Habsburg Customs Statistics (Source NAB, FC, 5748-5805)

The total amount of data created, captured, copied, and consumed globally is forecast to increase rapidly. While it was estimated at ***** zettabytes in 2025, the forecast for 2029 stands at ***** zettabytes. Thus, global data generation will triple between 2025 and 2029. Data creation has been expanding continuously over the past decade. In 2020, the growth was higher than previously expected, caused by the increased demand due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, as more people worked and learned from home and used home entertainment options more often.

The International Polar Year Historical Data and Literature collection (formerly known as the Discovery and Access of Historic Literature from the IPYs (DAHLI) project) is an online data collection consisting primarily of photographs, publications, and observational data records from, and relating to, the first two International Polar Years (IPY) 1882-83 and 1932-33 and the International Geophysical Year (IGY)1957-58. Examples of data contained in observational records include, but are not limited to: air magnetic vertical intensity, air conductivity, atmospheric-electric observations, auroral log data, potential-gradient electrographic data, dust counts, and meteorological observations. Photographs within the collection include those from the Wilkes Station in Antarctica, the USGS survey of Fletcher's Ice Island, and the DTM Geophysical Laboratory Library. Publications within this collection primarily consist of government (national and international) bulletins and reports on activities during the International Polar and International Geophysical years. Other data include audio files of interviews recorded during NCAR's Oral Histories Project, and a video on Drifting Station Alpha during the IGY, published by NSIDC.

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This dataset provides values for INTERNATIONAL INTERNET BANDWIDTH MBPS WB DATA.HTML reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

Unlock insights into the market for all watches with pricing and trading patterns in the secondary markets via auctions and online sales. It contains 25+ years of historical and real-time sales records across vendors in the primary markets within North America, Europe and Asia. This institutional-grade dataset delivers the precision and depth required for sophisticated investment analysis, market research, and strategic decision-making.

Egypt Internet: International Bandwidth: Annual Ending June data was reported at 1,906,350.000 Bit/sec mn in 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 1,213,860.000 Bit/sec mn for 2017. Egypt Internet: International Bandwidth: Annual Ending June data is updated yearly, averaging 36,341.000 Bit/sec mn from Jun 1998 (Median) to 2018, with 20 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,906,350.000 Bit/sec mn in 2018 and a record low of 20.000 Bit/sec mn in 1999. Egypt Internet: International Bandwidth: Annual Ending June data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Egypt – Table EG.TB001: Internet Statistics.

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Egypt Internet: International Bandwidth: Incoming data was reported at 1,090,920.000 Bit/sec mn in Aug 2018. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1,281,240.000 Bit/sec mn for Jul 2018. Egypt Internet: International Bandwidth: Incoming data is updated monthly, averaging 78,674.000 Bit/sec mn from Jul 2002 (Median) to Aug 2018, with 194 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,281,240.000 Bit/sec mn in Jul 2018 and a record low of 247.000 Bit/sec mn in Jul 2002. Egypt Internet: International Bandwidth: Incoming data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Egypt – Table EG.TB001: Internet Statistics.

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Comprehensive analysis of global internet speeds including country rankings, mobile vs fixed broadband comparison, and historical trends from 2020-2025

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Palm Oil rose to 4,134 MYR/T on December 2, 2025, up 1.00% from the previous day. Over the past month, Palm Oil's price has risen 0.46%, but it is still 18.56% lower than a year ago, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks the benchmark market for this commodity. Palm Oil - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on December of 2025.

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The Internet’s history has just begun

The Internet’s history goes back some decades by now – email has been around since the 1960s, file sharing since at least the 1970s, and TCP/IP was standardized in 1982. But it was the creation of the world wide web in 1989 that revolutionized our history of communication. The inventor of the world wide web was the English scientist Tim Berners-Lee who created a system to share information through a network of computers. At the time he was working for the European physics laboratory CERN in the Swiss Alps.

Here I want to look at the global expansion of the Internet since then.

This chart shows the share and number of people that are using the Internet, which in these statistics refers to all those who have used the Internet in the last 3 months.1

The chart starts in 1990, still, one year before Berners-Lee released the first web browser and before the very first website was online (the site of CERN, which is still online). At that time very few computers around the world were connected to a network; estimates for 1990 suggest that only half of a per cent of the world population were online.

As the chart shows, this started to change in the 1990s, at least in some parts of the world: By the year 2000 almost half of the population in the US was accessing information through the internet. But across most of the world, the internet had not yet had much influence – 93% in the East Asia and Pacific region and 99% in South Asia and in Sub-Saharan Africa were still offline in 2000. At the time of the Dot-com-crash, less than 7% of the world was online.

15 years later, in 2016, three-quarters (76%) of people in the US were online and during these years countries from many parts of the world caught up: in Malaysia, 79% used the internet; in Spain and Singapore 81%; in France 86%; in South Korea and Japan 93%; in Denmark and Norway 97%; and Iceland tops the ranking with 98% of the population online.2

At the other end of the spectrum, there are still countries where almost nothing has changed since 1990. In the very poorest countries – including Eritrea, Somalia, Guinea-Bissau, the Central African Republic, Niger, and Madagascar – fewer than 5% are online. And at the very bottom is North Korea, where the country’s oppressive regime restricts access to the walled-off North Korean intranet Kwangmyong and access to the global internet is only granted to a very small elite.

But the overarching trend globally – and, as the chart shows, in all world regions – is clear: more and more people are online every year. The speed with which the world is changing is incredibly fast. On any day in the last 5 years, there were on average 640,000 people online for the first time.3

This was 27,000 every hour.

For those who are online most days, it is easy to forget how young the internet still is. The timeline below the chart reminds you how recent websites and technologies became available that are integrated into the everyday lives of millions: In the 1990s there was no Wikipedia, Twitter launched in 2006, and Our World in Data is only 4 years old (and look how many people have joined since then4).

And while many of us cannot imagine our lives without the services that the internet provides, the key message for me from this overview of the global history of the internet is that we are still in the very early stages of the internet. It was only in 2017 that half of the world population was online, and in 2018 it is therefore still the case that close to half of the world population is not using the internet.5

The internet has already changed the world, but the big changes that the Internet will bring still lie ahead and its history has just begun.

Content

The data consists of the Internet and the Evolution of Broadband around the world.

Acknowledgements

The Data is collected from Our World In Data

Inspiration

What share of people is online? How many internet users does each country have?