 Internet usage in percent
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Total Number Of Internet Users
As of March 2007, approximately 1,114,274,426 people worldwide use the Internet, according to Internet World Stats.
Languages Used On The Internet The most-used language on the Internet is English. Although the total number of native English speakers in the world is about 322 million, English is spoken as a second language by almost 200 million people around the world. They make their contributions to the Internet in their own language as well as in English. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
Chinese is the most spoken language on Earth, and the second language on the Internet. The Chinese population online is increasing at a high rate; this is expected to have a great impact on the Internet in the near future.
Notably absent from the table below is Hindi, the most widely spoken language in India, the second most populated country in the world. This is due to preference for English among most users having Internet access. The Indian population online is also increasing at a high rate; this is also expected to have a great impact on the Internet in the near future. Hindi (हिनà¥à¤¦à¥€) is a language spoken mainly in North and Central India. ...
The figures in the table below were taken from Global Reach [1]. These are an estimate at September 2004 of the world online population per language.
| Position | Language | Users (M) | Users | Total Population (M) | GDP (B) | World Economy | GDP Per Capita | | 1 | English | 295.4 | 35.2% | 508 | | | | | 2 | Chinese | 110.0 | 13.7% | 874 | $6,328 | 13% | $7,200 | | 3 | Spanish | 86.0 | 12% | 410 | $2,500 | 8.9% | $7,100 | | 4 | Japanese | 67.1 | 8.4% | 125 | $3,400 | 8% | $27,200 | | 5 | German | 55.3 | 6.9% | 101 | $2,679 | 5.8% | $26,800 | | 6 | French | 33.9 | 4.2% | 100 | $1,517 | 4.2% | $19,700 | | 7 | Korean | 31.3 | 3.9% | 78 | $887 | 2% | $11,400 | | 8 | Italian | 30.4 | 3.3% | 62 | $1,251 | 3.6% | $20,100 | | 9 | Portuguese | 24.4 | 3.1% | 176 | $1,487 | 3.6% | $8,400 | | 10 | Russian | 22 | | 167 | $822 | 1.8% | $4,900 | | 11 | Malay | 14.2 | 1.8% | 229 | $258 | 2% | | | 12 | Dutch | 14.0 | 1.7% | 20 | $575 | | $28,500 | | 13 | Arabic | 13.5 | 1.7% | 300 | $678 | 1.6% | $4,200 | | 14 | Polish | 9.6 | 1.2% | 44 | $359 | | $8,100 | | 15 | Swedish | 7.7 | | 9 | $237 | | $26,300 | | 16 | Thai | 60 | | 46 | $406 | | $8,800 | | 17 | Turkish | 6.8 | | 67.4 | $431 | | $6,400 | | 18 | Vietnamese | 5.8 | | 68 | | | | | 19 | Persian | 4.6 | | 64 | $84 | | | | 20 | Romanian | 4.4 | | 26 | $108 | | $4,200 | | 21 | Czech | 3.8 | | 12 | $121 | | $10,000 | | 22 | Hebrew | 3.8 | | 5.2 | $132 | | $21,000 | | 23 | Danish | 2.9 | | 5.4 | $171 | | $31,700 | | 24 | Finnish | 2.8 | | 6 | $142 | | $23,600 | | 25 | Hungarian | 2.5 | | 10 | $96 | | $9,600 | | 26 | Greek | 2.4 | | 12 | $189 | | $15,800 | | 27 | Catalan | 2.4 | | 6.6 | | | | | 28 | Norwegian | 2.1 | | 5 | $136 | | $27,200 | | 29 | Slovak | 1.8 | | 5.6 | $47 | | $8,700 | | 30 | Serbo-Croatian | 1.0 | | 20 | | | | | 31 | Ukrainian | 0.9 | | 47 | $115 | | $2,300 | | 32 | Punjabi | 0.8 | | 38 | | | | | 33 | Slovenian | 0.8 | | 2 | $22.90 | | $10,900 | | 34 | Icelandic | 0.2 | | 0.3 | $6 | | $23,500 | | World Total | 801.4 | | 6460 | $41,400 | | | The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
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See Also The predominance of English on the Internet—English language content and English language users—has fueled the rise of the Internet as a means of communication, information dissemination and entertainment. ...
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