Growing spending power among the Asian consumers will lead to an increase in online users in the Asian region. The number of internet users in world will grow more than 45 per cent to 2.2 billion users over the next five years, and India will have the third largest online population, said a new report by technology and market research firm Forrester Research. Asia will see the biggest growth and markets like India, China and Indonesia would have an average annual growth rate of 10 to 20 percent between 2008 and 2013. China, which is largest in online population, will see a growth of 11 percent each year for the next five years. Apart from India, other Asian countries with a substantial growth rates are Indonesia, Pakistan and the Philippines.Growth rates in some of the more mature markets such as Japan and South Korea will rise by less than 2 per cent each year. However,  the global online population in North America will drop to 13 percent from 17 percent, while Europe's share will also drop to 22 percent from 26 percent, the report stated. Latin America will remain consistent with 11 percent share of the global online population.