New Delhi: Indian Internet users will surpass the number in the US by the end of this year and around 500 million people will be online by 2018.

"Even at the current growth rate, we will have 500 million Indians on the Internet by 2018. By the end of this year, India will become larger than the US in terms of number of Internet users. By 2018, India will have twice the number of Internet users as the US does. Almost half the country will be connected through the Internet," said Rajan Anandan, managing director, Google India Tuesday, while addressing "Digitizing India" organised by FICCI Ladies Organisation.