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one of caida's elves (brad) did a cool visualization of demographic measures of Internet resources, stratified by continent with substratification by country (with help of CIA factbook, RouteViews, and NetGeo).
http://www.caida.org/analysis/geopolitical/bgp2country/
measures: geographic area, human population, GDP, phones-in-use,
ASes, ISPs, prefixes, addresses....
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