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Global Internet Statistics
(by Language)
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Here are the latest estimated figures of the number of people online in each language zone (native speakers). We classify by languages instead of by countries, since people speaking the same language form their own online community no matter what country they happen to live in. (Projected E-commerce figures by country)

  Internet access (M) %'age world online pop. 2004 (est. in M) Total pop. (M) GDP ($B) %'age of world economy GDP per capita (K) Net Hosts
(2002)
English 262.3 35.6% 280 508        
Non-English 474.3 64.4% 680 5822        
European Languages
(non-English)
257.4 34.9% 328 1,218 $12,968 31.3%    
Catalan 2.9 2   2.9 6.6        
Czech 4.1 3   4.4 12 $121   $10.0 240
Dutch 13.54 1.8% 14.5 20 $575   $28.5 3205
Finnish 2.8 5   3 6 $142   $23.6 1140
French 27.2 6 3.7% 41 77 $1517 4.2% $19.7 2995
German 51.67 7.0% 62 100 $2679 5.8% $26.8 4250
Greek 2.7 8   3 12 $189   $15.8 203
Hungarian 1.7 9   3 10 $96   $9.6 254
Italian 24.2 10 3.3% 30 62 $1251 3.6% $20.1 3900
Polish 6.9 11   9 44 $359   $8.1 843
Portuguese 19.4 12 2.6% 32 176 $1487 3.6% $8.4 2528
Romanian 2.4 13   3 26 $108   $4.2 92
Russian 18.5 14 2.5% 23 167 $822 1.8% $4.9 497
     Danish 3.5 15     5.4 $171   $31.7 1154
     Icelandic 0.2 15     .3 $6   $23.5 68
     Norwegian 2.9 15     5 $136   $27.2 590
     Swedish 7.7 15     9 $237   $26.3 1209
Scandinavian languages (total) 14.3 15 1.9% 16 19.7 $550 1.3% $27.9 3021
Serbo-Croatian 1.0 16     20       41
Slovak 1.2 17   1.5 5.6 $47   $8.7 81
Slovenian 0.7 18   1 2 $22.9   $10.9 30
Spanish 58.8 19 8.0% 70 350 $2500 8.9% $7.1 2555
Turkish 5.8 20   7 67.4 $431   $6.4 200
Ukranian 0.9   2 47 $115   $2.3 63
TOTAL EUROPEAN LANGUAGES (excl. English) 257.4 34.9% 328 1,218 $12,968 31.3%   24,529
ASIAN LANGUAGES                
Arabic 8.7 21 1.2% 12 300 $678 1.6% $4.2 1592
Chinese 90.0 22 12.2% 170 874 $6328 13.0% $7.2 2825
Farsi 2.2     64 $84     429
Hebrew 3.8 23   2.8 5.2 $132   $21.0 230
Japanese 69.7 23 9.5% 88 125 $3,400 8.0% $27.2 9260
Korean 29.224 4.0% 43 78 $887 2.0 $11.4 407
Malay 8.7 25 1.2% 12 229 $258 2.0%   95
Thai 2.4 26   3.5 46 $406   $8.8 100
Vietnamese 2.2 27   3.5 68       529
TOTAL ASIAN LANGUAGES 216.9 29.4% 263        

10,440

                 
TOTAL WORLD 679.7   940 6,330 $41,400      
Source: Global Reach (global-reach.biz/globstats)
Online Language Populations

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Global Reach has been tracking non-English online populations since 1995.  You can see a graph of the growth of these online populations by clicking here.

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Last revised on 30 Sept., 2003
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