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
(2003)
English 287.5 35.8% 280 508        
Non-English 516.7 64.2% 680 5822        
European Languages
(non-English)		 276 37.9% 328 1,218 $12,968 31.3%    
Catalan 2.9 2   2.9 6.6        
Czech 4.2 3   4.4 12 $121   $10.0 316
Dutch 13.54 1.9% 14.5 20 $575   $28.5 4510
Finnish 2.8 5   3 6 $142   $23.6 1224
French 28.0 6 3.8% 41 77 $1517 4.2% $19.7 3739
German 52.97 7.3% 62 100 $2679 5.8% $26.8 5136
Greek 2.7 8   3 12 $189   $15.8 246
Hungarian 1.7 9   3 10 $96   $9.6 314
Italian 24.3 10 3.3% 30 62 $1251 3.6% $20.1 5521
Polish 9.5 11 1.3% 9 44 $359   $8.1 1297
Portuguese 25.712 3.5% 32 176 $1487 3.6% $8.4 3463
Romanian 2.4 13   3 26 $108   $4.2 141
Russian 18.5 14 2.5% 23 167 $822 1.8% $4.9 617
     Danish 3.5 15     5.4 $171   $31.7 1467
     Icelandic 0.2 15     .3 $6   $23.5 106
     Norwegian 2.9 15     5 $136   $27.2 1013
     Swedish 7.9 15     9 $237   $26.3 1540
Scandinavian languages (total) 14.6 15 2.0% 16 19.7 $550 1.3% $27.9 4126
Serbo-Croatian 1.0 16     20       54
Slovak 1.2 17   1.5 5.6 $47   $8.7 99
Slovenian 0.8 18   1 2 $22.9   $10.9 35
Spanish 65.6 19 9.0% 70 350 $2500 8.9% $7.1 3631
Turkish 5.8 20   7 67.4 $431   $6.4 345
Ukranian 0.9   2 47 $115   $2.3 96
TOTAL EUROPEAN LANGUAGES (excl. English) 276.0 37.9% 328 1,218 $12,968 31.3%    
ASIAN LANGUAGES                
Arabic 10.5 21 1.4% 12 300 $678 1.6% $4.2 145
Chinese 102.6 22 14.1% 170 874 $6328 13.0% $7.2 4014
Farsi 3.4     64 $84     500
Hebrew 3.8 23   2.8 5.2 $132   $21.0 634
Japanese 69.7 23 9.6% 88 125 $3,400 8.0% $27.2 12,962
Korean 29.924 4.1% 43 78 $887 2.0 $11.4 253
Malay 13.6 25 1.9% 12 229 $258 2.0%   95
Thai 4.9 26   3.5 46 $406   $8.8 104
Vietnamese 2.2 27   3.5 68       529
TOTAL ASIAN LANGUAGES 240.6 33.0% 263          
                 
TOTAL WORLD 729.2   940 6,330 $41,400      
Source: Global Reach (global-reach.biz/globstats)
Online Language Populations

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Last revised on 30 March, 2004
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