The Broadband Forum using data from Point Topic has just released its latest broadband and IPTV report looking at the  number of worldwide broadband connections and the associated uptake of IPTV subscriptions.

Connections . Country
93,549,000 … China
86,227,582 … USA
31,085,500 … Japan
24,086,250 … Germany
18,324,300 … France
17,838,200 … UK
15,876,992 … South Korea
12,855,463 … Italy
10,469,755 … Brazil
  9,618,107 … Canada

Growth is not often not linear, with the number of connections slowing in the last Quarter in Latin America, Eastern Europe is currently the fastest growing region.

Connections … Q2/09 Inc.
109,650,503 … 1.64% … Western Europe
105,389,289 … 4.46% … South and East Asia
  95,845,689 … 2.51% … North America
  65,959,917 … 2.11% … Asia-Pacific
  29,292,408 … 4.81% … Latin America
  25,107,902 … 5.88% … Eastern Europe
  13,054,260 … 1.83% … Middle East and Africa

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