{"id":19877,"date":"2014-04-24T13:01:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T05:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/?p=19877"},"modified":"2023-04-06T19:17:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T11:17:51","slug":"infographic-digital-world-fuels-physical-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/infographic-digital-world-fuels-physical-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Powering the Physical Economy with the Digital World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You probably know that it is <strong>important for a business to have some sort of Web presence<\/strong>, be it a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/building-about-us-page\/\">contact page<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/beautiful-landing-pages\/\">landing page<\/a> for a product, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/professionally-looking-ecommerce-web-design\/\">e-Commerce page<\/a> to take in orders or a social media page to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/facebook-business-page-tips\/\">interact with customers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What you may not know is that the dealings in the digital world accounts for <strong>more than the total GDP contributions from Canada and Spain<\/strong>. And the numbers are still rising! In 2012, 34% of the world\u2019s population could be found on the Internet; that\u2019s over 2 billion people, half of which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/taobao-shopping-guides\/\">from Asia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Find details on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/e-commerce-in-china\/\">rise of China<\/a> as an <strong>infuential power in the $8 trillion-dollar e-Commerce market<\/strong>, the growth of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/building-mobile-app-navigation-with-jquery\/\">mobile app<\/a> economy, who  the potential players and leaders in the Internet \"supply\" ecosystem\" are,  and more on <strong>the Internet\u2019s impact on the world\u2019s economy<\/strong> in this detailed infographic by <strong>FEInternational<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"note\"><strong>Recommended Reading: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/infographic-hongkong-new-tech-hub\/\">Hong Kong \u2013 The New Tech Hub Of China [Infographic]<\/a><\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/infographic-digital-world-fuels-physical-economy\/The-Internets-Economic-Impact.jpg\" alt=\"internet economic impact infographic\" width=\"700\" height=\"5430\"><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You probably know that it is important for a business to have some sort of Web presence, be it a contact page, a landing page for a product, an e-Commerce page to take in orders or a social media page to interact with customers. 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