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Global Internet usage

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This article provides information relating to the number of people who use the Internet by language, nationality, geography, etc.

Total number of Internet users

As of July 2008, approximately 1,463,632,361 people worldwide use the Internet, according to Internet World Stats.

Internet usage by percentage of each country's population

Population of Internet users by country (CIA figures)

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 up to 1.2 billion people around the world. They make their contributions to the Internet in their own language as well as in English.

Chinese is the most spoken native 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.

The figures in the table below were taken from Global Reach ^[1]. These are estimates, for September 2004, of the world online population per language.

Posi-tion	Language	Users (m)	Users	Total Popula-tion (m)	GDP (b)	World Econo-my	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	29.4	3.3%	176	$1,487	3.6%	$8,400
10	Russian	22	2.7%	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	4.9		46	$406		$8,800
17	Turkish	6.8		67.4	$431		$6,400
18	Vietnamese	5.8		84
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

See also

External links

Internet Top Ten Languages
Estimation of English and non-English Language Use on the WWW, 2000, web pages, 32 latin character languages
World Internet statistics analysis
World GDP by Language
Internet Users Map 2005

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage

Published - September 2008

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