Did you know that there are 1.6 billion people in the world connected to the Internet? And did you also know that there are more than 20 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute?

If you’re a lover of these sorts of Internet facts and statistics then today is a happy day.

I seem to spend half my day hunting round for some stats to back up what I’m trying to say. And the other half trying to remember and find the Internet facts that I read about last week.

Thanks once again to Google, all these facts and statistics can now be found in one place. They’ve launched a microsite that brings together all the Internet stats and insights for the UK.

The statistics are collected from a load of other third party research organisations. They cover lots of different areas, but are strongest in broad brush economic trends and media insights. They also look at consumer behaviour and the influence of technology, and how that changes over time.

Here some interesting snippets that we’ve grabbed:

“Over 60% of online businesses are confident about the future.” (NMA, March 2009)

“In the UK, searches for “discount vouchers” grew by 94% between November and December 2008” (Google Insights for Search)

“By election day, fully 25% of people who pulled the lever for Obama were already connected to his campaign electronically.” (New York Magazine, January 2009)

“More than 1 in 5 adults in the UK, FR, IT, & US with Internet access had watched longer videos such as feature films or full-length TV shows online.” (Ofcom, December 2008)

“In May 2009, Google had over 4.0 billion search page views in the UK.” (Nielsen Netview, May 2009)

Have a look at the site and let us know which fact you found most interesting.