NEW DELHI: Indian Internet users will surpass the number in the U.S. by the end of this year and around 500 million people will be online by 2018, Rajan Anandan, managing director, Google India said.

"Even at the current growth rate, we will have 500 million Indians on the Internet by 2018. By the end of this year, India will become larger than the U.S. in terms of number of Internet users. By 2018, India will have twice the number of Internet users as the US does. Almost half the country will be connected through the Internet," he said while addressing "Digitizing India" organized by FICCI Ladies Organization.

He mentioned that it took the country 10 years to go from 10 million Internet users to 100 million Internet users. Now the country is adding five million new Internet users every month. India now has over 200 million Internet users.

"A lot of people talk about the last elections and how urban India was mobilized using the Internet. We have seen nothing yet in terms of what the Internet can do to every aspect of life, of society and of governance. By the next elections (expected in 2019) almost half a billion Indians will be connected through Internet. In terms of the kind of mobilization, can you imagine what it can do?"

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