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Global Internet Statistics
(by Language)
Sources and references Details by country

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.

  Internet access (M) %'age world online pop. 2003 (est. in M) Total pop. (M) GDP ($B) %'age of world economy GDP per capita (K) Net Hosts
English 189.6 49.6% 225 322 $11,070 32%    
Non-English 192.4 50.4% 415 5,760 $22,930 68%    
European Languages
(non-English)		 113.8 29.8% 223 1,089 $10,550 31%    
Czech 0.35 2   3 10.3 $27   $11.1 113
Dutch 6.03    1.6% 11 20 $518   $20.7 1061
Finnish 2.2 4   4 5 $151   $20 631
French 15.2 5 4.0% 32 72 $1620 4.8% $24 1225
German 23.46 5.9% 45 98 $2240 6.6% $25 2196
Greek 1.5 7   3 12 $96   $7.5 78
Hungarian 0.71 8   3 15 $35   $7.5 104
Italian 12.3 9 3.2% 23 57 $1210 3.6% $20.5 673
Polish 3.1 10   6 44 $79   $2.5 183
Portuguese 9.4 11 2.5% 20 170 $1088 3.2% $6.5 537
Romanian 0.6 12              
Russian 9.3 13 2.4% 15 170 692 2.0% $5.2 268
     Danish 2.6 14     5 $165   $22.6 337
     Icelandic 0.14 14              30
     Norwegian 2.2 14     4 $154   $26.2 402
     Swedish 3.6 14     10 $249   $20.8 594
Scandinavian languages (total) 8.6 14 2.3% 12 19.3 $568 1.7%    
Slovak 0.7 15   1 5.4 $46.3   $8.6  26
Slovenian 0.46 16   1 5.4 $46.3   $8.6 21
Spanish 18.9 17 5.0% 50 332 $2015 5.9% $6 1083
Turkish 2.17 18   2 59 $388   $6.1 91
TOTAL EUROPEAN LANGUAGES (excl. English) 113.8 29.8% 230 1,089 $10,550 31%   9587
ASIAN LANGUAGES                
Arabic 2.36 19     130 $638     34
Chinese 28.7 20 7.5% 90 885 $4250 12.5% $3.5 932
Hebrew 1.0 21     6 $97   $17.5 140
Japanese 27.3 22 7.1% 58 125 $3,256 9.6% $22.7 2637
Korean 15.7 23 4.1% 35 75 $384   $14.2 283
Malay 2.5 24     200 $674      80
Thai 1 25     20 $525   $7.7 40
TOTAL ASIAN LANGUAGES 78.6 20.6% 250        

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TOTAL WORLD 369.4     6,080 $34,000      
Online Language Populations

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Global Reach: international Website traffic-buildingThis page is edited by Global Reach, a marketing communications consultancy that assists clients attract Website visitors worldwide from all countries that are online. Internet marketing is global (that is, multi-lingual) by nature, and this requires expertise in international marketing. We can expand a single-language site to several languages and actively promote the resulting multi-lingual site within those languages' online communities.

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Last revised on 30 Sept., 2000
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