```json { "title": "IP Addresses by Country and Registrar — August 2008", "url": "https://performancezen.com/2008/08/25/ip-addresses-by-country-and-registrar-august-2008/", "datePublished": "2008-08-25", "dateModified": "2008-08-25", "language": "en-US", "description": "The five top-level IP Registrars (ARIN, RIPE, APNIC, LACNIC, AFRINIC) manage tens of million IPV4 and IPV6 addresses, assigning them to networks around the world. These addresses are key to…", "author": "spierzchala", "publisher": "Performance Zen" } ``` # IP Addresses by Country and Registrar — August 2008 [http://flickr.com/photos/51035608580@N01/260473761](http://flickr.com/photos/51035608580@N01/260473761)The five top-level IP Registrars (ARIN, RIPE, APNIC, LACNIC, AFRINIC) manage tens of million IPV4 and IPV6 addresses, assigning them to networks around the world. These addresses are key to accessing the Internet for all end-users. About once a year, I generate the statistics out of the [IP address database](http://newestindustry.org/2005/11/08/geographic-ip-database-using-perl-php-and-mysql/) I maintain. The last one was published back in [August 2007](http://newestindustry.org/2007/08/22/ip-registry-statistics-august-2007/),  and, as can be imagined, there have been substantial changes that have occurred in the last 12 months. At the country level, there has been a substantial change in the top five as China has superseded Japan in the total number of IPV4 addresses. In fact, in the last 12 months, Japan has seen a net loss in the total number of allocated IPV4 addresses. country NETWORKS IPS UNITED STATES 33758 1441234432 CHINA 1478 161991424 JAPAN 1971 148897280 EUROPEAN UNION 4766 120292412 UNITED KINGDOM 3460 85509464 GERMANY 2237 78525232 CANADA 5201 73586944 FRANCE 1692 68225984 KOREA, REPUBLIC OF 631 66108928 AUSTRALIA 5950 35859200 ITALY 921 29520320 BRAZIL 266 27657728 TAIWAN, PROVINCE OF CHINA 410 23842816 MEXICO 158 21504000 SPAIN 494 20755104 NETHERLANDS 1319 20614440 RUSSIAN FEDERATION 2654 19910472 SWEDEN 800 16947104 INDIA 542 16661504 SOUTH AFRICA 790 13828352 POLAND 1457 12799116 DENMARK 459 9149792 TURKEY 269 8892096 FINLAND 619 8812672 SWITZERLAND 1217 7642056 ROMANIA 693 7612416 HONG KONG 633 7537408 NORWAY 388 7119648 AUSTRIA 793 6938336 INDONESIA 429 6885376 ARGENTINA 380 6241280 BELGIUM 370 6016640 CZECH REPUBLIC 572 5592704 NEW ZEALAND 1187 5560064 VIETNAM 81 4388352 THAILAND 338 4367104 UKRAINE 1547 4356416 SINGAPORE 395 4352512 CHILE 380 4313344 IRELAND 204 4025760 MALAYSIA 238 3949312 ISRAEL 211 3936192 PORTUGAL 134 3859296 COLOMBIA 217 3818752 GREECE 220 3746816 VENEZUELA 109 3592704 HUNGARY 231 3577472 PHILIPPINES 257 2957056 BULGARIA 331 2923264 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 23 2278656 EGYPT 85 2255616 SAUDI ARABIA 154 2194176 LITHUANIA 117 1997696 IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF 94 1588224 CROATIA 62 1438048 SLOVAKIA 157 1418240 COSTA RICA 24 1332224 LATVIA 187 1316864 PAKISTAN 110 1302016 PERU 74 1253120 SLOVENIA 187 1210752 PANAMA 51 1038592 ESTONIA 77 1008912 The adjustment in China is completely expected, as China has substantial room to expand its IPV4 population, compared to a country such as Japan which is likely approaching saturation in this area. In the total number of IPV4 addresses assigned by registrar, [ARIN](http://www.arin.net/) (US, Canada, and parts of the Caribbean) still has a substantially larger population than the other regions. However, this region only grew by 3 million IPV4 addresses in the last 12 months, compared to 42 million for [RIPE](http://ripe.net/) (Europe and the Middle East), and 74 million for [APNIC](http://www.apnic.net/) (Asia-Pacific). LACNIC (Mexico, Latin and South America) grew by 13 million IPV4 addresses and AFRINIC (Africa) by 4 million. registry NETWORKS IPS arin 39231 1583464704 ripencc 29996 539874744 apnic 15143 480405504 lacnic 2152 74576896 afrinic 1325 20201216 Some of this growth in APNIC, AFRINIC, and LACNIC can be attributed to adjustments in the Registry structure itself. Now that there are five registrars with responsibility for a clearly defined set of nations, a number of adjustments have had to occur in the registrar of record for IPV4 ranges. In the past, for nations that were not explicitly covered by a regional registrar, the IPV4 range may have been assigned by the registrar now responsible for the region, most likely ARIN or RIPE. Now that there are registrars specifically designated to cover these formerly grey areas, these historical artifacts are being corrected as registry information is renewed. However, this cannot directly account for the noticeable growth in AFRINIC, APNIC, and LACNIC relative to the two older registrars. This is yet another indication of the strong growth of the Internet outside of its established base of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, and a small number of industrialized nations in the Asia-Pacific region.