In januari 2008 Comscore, an American Market Researcher, counted more than 824 million surfers (older than 15 years) worldwide.  Compared to januari 2007 this is an increase by 10.4 percent.

According to Comscore there were 233 million surfers in Europe of 28.2 percent of the worldwide total, this is increase by 6.8 percent compared to last year