Highlights from the May report show that men use the mobile Web most as 88.1 percent of people using the mobile Web are male, most people using Opera Mini are between the ages of 18-27, more than 14.7 million people used Opera Mini in May to browse 2.9 billion pages and Opera Mini served more than 43.2 million MB of data traffic in May, up 30.4% since March.

“In the previous report, we looked at what people did on the mobile Web. With this next report we look at who uses the mobile Web,” said Jon von Tetzchner, Chief Executive Officer, Opera Software. “Because accessing the Web on mobile devices will become more pervasive than accessing the Web with computers, we expect that over time one gender or one age range will not dominate. We will see how these numbers change in time as more people discover the absolute convenience of browsing the Web on their mobile phones.”

With the UEFA Euro 2008 football tournament happening this month and the Olympics following next month, the report also includes a spotlight on the most popular sports sites on the mobile Web.

Data in the report is based on aggregate and anonymous statistics from Opera Mini servers. All percentages are based on a snapshot of the Top 100 sites for each region. Demographic data was collected from voluntary user surveys that were made available to a random subset of Opera Mini users, via their handsets, in English, Russian, Chinese, German and Polish. Surveys responses were collected between February 2008 and June 2008.

Beyond providing a snapshot of worldwide browsing trends, Opera’s “State of the Mobile Web” highlights the browsing trends in the ten countries where Opera Mini is most popular: the United States, Russia, China, Indonesia, India, United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, South Africa and Ukraine.