Here are the latest estimated figures of the number of each online language
population (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. | Year 2000 (proj'd) (M) | Total pop. (M) | GDP ($B) | %'age world economy | GDP per capita | Net Hosts | |
| 1291 | 57.4% | 160 | 322 | $10,780 | 32% | |||
| Non-English |
95.6 |
42.6% | 167 | 5,630 | $22,930 | 68% | ||
| European Languages (non-English) |
59.3 | 26.4% | 1,063 | $10,550 | 31% | |||
| Czech |
0.27 2 | 10.3 | $27 | $11.1 | 74 | |||
| Dutch |
4.4 3 | 7 | 20 | $518 | $20.7 | 668 | ||
| Finnish |
1.6 4 | 5 | $151 | $20 |
513 | |||
| 9.3 5 | 4.2% | 16 | 72 | $1620 | 4.8% | $24 | 812 | |
| 14 6 | 6.2% | 25 | 98 | $2240 | 6.6% | $25 | 1621 | |
| Greek |
0.26 7 | 12 | $96 | $7.5 | 52 | |||
| Hungarian |
0.31 8 | 15 | $35 | $7.5 | 84 | |||
| Italian |
5.7 9 | 2.5% |
10.6 | 57 | $1210 | 3.6% | $20.5 | 349 |
| Polish |
1.0 10 | 44 | $79 | $2.5 | 109 | |||
| Portuguese |
3.4 11 | 1.5% |
170 | $1088 | 3.2% | $6.5 | 265 | |
| Russian |
1.4 12 | 5 | 170 | 692 | 2.0% | $5.2 | 166 | |
| Danish |
1.7 13 | 5 | $165 | $22.6 | 280 | |||
| Icelandic |
0.38 13 | |||||||
| Norwegian |
1.5 13 | 4 | $154 | $26.2 | 319 | |||
| Swedish |
3.9 13 | 4 | 10 | $249 | $20.8 | 534 | ||
| Scandinavian languages (total) |
7.5 13 | 3.3% | 8 | 19.25 | $568 | 1.7% |
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| Slovak |
0.51 14 | 5.4 | $46.3 | $8.6 |
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| 9.6 15 | 4.3% | 332 | $2015 | 6.0% | $6 |
510 | ||
| Turkish |
0.15 16 | 59 | $388 | $6.1 |
33 | |||
| TOTAL EUROPEAN LANGUAGES (excl. English) | 59.3 | 26.4% | 1,450 | $10,550 | 31% | 6328 | ||
| ASIAN LANGUAGES | ||||||||
| Arabic |
0.95 17 | 130 | $638 | |||||
| 9.9 18 | 4.4% | 885 | $4250 | 13.5% | $3.5 | 476 | ||
| Hebrew |
0.8 19 | 6 | $97 | $17.5 | 98 | |||
| Indonesian |
0.08 20 | 220 | $780 | $3.8 | 15 | |||
| 19.7 21 | 8.8% | 23 | 125 | $3,256 | 9.7% | $22.7 | 1688 | |
| Korean |
4.3 22 | 1.9% | 75 | $384 | $14.2 | 186 | ||
| Malaysian |
0.6 23 | 18 | $193 | $10.8 | 48 | |||
| Thai |
0.13 24 | 20 | $525 | $7.7 | 21 | |||
| TOTAL ASIAN LANGUAGES | 36.4 | 16.2% | 2311 | |||||
| TOTAL WORLD | 215 | 327 | 5,950 | $33,700 |
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This is the fastest-growing group of people online today:
those who do not access the Internet in English. Think of this chart as a city of 96 M people: the city of those online who do not access the Internet in English. It is a city where 20% are Japanese, 15% are German, 10% are Chinese, 10% are Hispanic, etc. |
Editor:
This 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.
