BEIJING -- China's netizen population, the world's largest, grew to 632 million by the end of June, an industry report showed on Monday.

Figures from the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) showed that there were 14.42 million new Internet users in the first six months of the year.

The number of mobile Internet users totaled 527 million as of June 30, up 26.99 million from the end of 2013, the CNNIC report said.

According to the report, the 34th of its kind since 1997, Chinese netizens spent a weekly average of 25.9 hours on the Internet, an increase of 0.9 hour from the figure recorded in the second half of 2013.