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The number of total recorded internet users has reached the figure of 1,262,032,697 worldwide. Even though English leads in absolute terms with more than 30.1% of total internet users, it is overcome by 882,503,350 users that access internet in a different language. Second most widely used language is Chinese (14.7%) and third Spanish (9.0%).
The following table includes figures of worldwide Internet users from the language perspective:
TOP 10
LANGUAGES
ON INTERNET |
% of all
Users |
Internet
Users by
Language |
Internet
Penetration
by Language |
Language
Growth
on Internet
(2000-2007) |
2007 Estimated
World
Population
for Language |
English
|
30,1% |
379 529 347 |
18,8% |
167,3% |
2 022 629 545 |
| Chinese |
14,7% |
184 901 513 |
13,6% |
472,4% |
1 356 701 170 |
| Spanish |
9,0% |
113 463 158 |
25,4% |
359,7% |
446 648 991 |
| Japanese |
6,9% |
87 540 000 |
68,7% |
85,9% |
127 433 494 |
French
|
5,1% |
63 761 141 |
15,6% |
422,7% |
407 819 872 |
German
|
4,9% |
61 912 361 |
64,2% |
123,5% |
96 403 511 |
| Portugese |
4,0% |
50 828 760 |
21,4% |
570,9% |
237 003 607 |
| Arabic |
3,7% |
46 359 140 |
13,2% |
1 575,9% |
350 965 119 |
Korean
|
2,7% |
34 430 000 |
47,6% |
80,8% |
72 346 515 |
| Italia |
2,6% |
33 143 152 |
57,0% |
151,1% |
58 178 115 |
| 10 TOP LANGUAGES |
83,7% |
1 055 868 572 |
20,4% |
221,4% |
5 176 129 939 |
| Rest of the Languages |
16,3% |
206 164 125 |
14,4% |
534,8% |
1 430 840 227 |
WHOLE WORLD
|
100,0% |
1 262 032 697 |
19,1% |
249,6% |
6 606 970 166 |
Source: www.internetworldstats.com
SLOVAK
According to latest figures from InternetWorldStats there are 2,500,000 Slovak citizens online. This represents the penetration of 46.5%. The number of Slovak users has grown by 284.6% between 2000 and 2007.
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