Top Languages on the Internet

Languages on the Internet

Top Ten Languages Used in the Web
 ( Number of Internet Users by Language )

TOP TEN
LANGUAGES IN
THE INTERNET

Internet Users,
 by Language

% of all
Internet Users

World Population
2006 Estimate
for Language

Internet Growth
for Language
( 2000 - 2005 )

English

312,757,646

30.6 %

1,125,664,397

128.0 %

Chinese

132,301,513

13.0 %

1,340,767,863

309.6 %

Japanese

86,300,000

8.5 %

128,389,000

83.3 %

Spanish

80,593,698

7.9 %

429,293,261

229.2 %

German

56,853,104

5.6%

95,982,043

106.0 %

French

40,974,004

4.0 %

381,193,149

235.9 %

Korean

33,900,000

3.3 %

73,945,860

78.0 %

Portuguese

32,372,000

3.2 %

230,846,275

327.3 %

Italian

28,870,000

2.8%

59,115,261

118.7 %

Russian

23,700,000

2.3 %

143,682,757

664.5 %
TOP TEN LANGUAGES

828,621,965

81.0 %

4,008,879,867

156.0 %

Rest of World Languages

194,241,342

19.0 %

2,490,817,193

421.6 %

WORLD TOTAL

1,022,863,307

100.0%

6,499,697,060

183.4 %

(*)Last Update: March 31, 2006.



Examples for data interpretation:
  • There are 80,593,698 Spanish speaking people using the Internet, this represents 7.9 % of all the Internet users.
  • Out of the estimated 429,293,261 world population that speaks Spanish, 18.8 % use the Internet.
  • The number of Spanish Speaking Internet Users has grown 229.2 % in the last five years (2000-2005).

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