Global Internet usage

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Graph of internet users per 100 inhabitants between 1997 and 2007 by International Telecommunication Union
Country population penetration of Internet use in 2007
2007 distribution of Internet users by country (CIA)

This article provides information relating to the number of people who use the Internet by language, nationality, geography, etc.

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[edit] Total number of Internet users

As of July 2008, approximately 1,463,632,361 people worldwide use the Internet, according to Internet World Stats.

[edit] Average Age of Internet Users

According to an active survey being conducted by NiteCo , the average internet user is 29.7700 years old as of April 6 2009.[1] [2]

[edit] Languages used on the Internet

The most-used language on the Internet is English. Although the total number of native English speakers in the world is about 322 million, English is spoken as a second language by up to 1.2 billion people around the world. They make their contributions to the Internet in their own language as well as in English.

Chinese is the most common native language on Earth, and the second most-used language on the Internet. According to CNNIC, the number of Chinese Internet users increased by 42% in 2008 to a total of 298 million. This high rate of growth is expected to have a significant impact on the Internet in the near future.[citation needed]

Notably absent from the table below is Hindi, the most widely spoken language in India. This is due to the high numbers of English educated Indians. Virtually all Indian colleges and universities teach in English. English, along with Hindi, are the two official languages of India. The Indian population online is also increasing rapidly.

The source of the figures in the table below is Global Reach[3]. These are estimates of the world online population by language for September 2004.

Position Language Users (m) Users Total Population (m) GDP (b) World Economy GDP Per Capita
1 English 295.4 35.2% 508
2 Chinese 110.0 13.7% 874 $6,328 13% $7,200
3 Spanish 86.0 12% 410 $2,500 8.9% $7,100
4 Japanese 67.1 8.4% 125 $3,400 8% $27,200
5 German 55.3 6.9% 101 $2,679 5.8% $26,800
6 French 33.9 4.2% 100 $1,517 4.2% $19,700
7 Korean 31.3 3.9% 78 $887 2% $11,400
8 Italian 30.4 3.3% 62 $1,251 3.6% $20,100
9 Portuguese 29.4 3.3% 176 $1,487 3.6% $8,400
10 Russian 22 2.7% 167 $822 1.8% $4,900
11 Malay 14.2 1.8% 229 $258 2%
12 Dutch 14.0 1.7% 20 $575 $28,500
13 Arabic 13.5 1.7% 300 $678 1.6% $4,200
14 Polish 9.6 1.2% 44 $359 $8,100
15 Swedish 7.7 9 $237 $26,300
16 Thai 4.9 46 $406 $8,800
17 Turkish 6.8 67.4 $431 $6,400
18 Vietnamese 5.8 84
19 Persian 4.6 71 $84
20 Romanian 4.4 26 $108 $4,200
21 Czech 3.8 12 $121 $10,000
22 Hebrew 3.8 5.2 $132 $21,000
23 Danish 2.9 5.4 $171 $31,700
24 Finnish 2.8 6 $142 $23,600
25 Hungarian 2.5 10 $96 $9,600
26 Greek 2.4 12 $189 $15,800
27 Catalan 2.4 6.6
28 Norwegian 2.1 5 $136 $27,200
29 Slovak 1.8 5.6 $47 $8,700
30 Serbo-Croatian 1.0 20
31 Ukrainian 0.9 47 $115 $2,300
32 Punjabi 0.8 38
33 Slovenian 0.8 2 $22.90 $10,900
34 Icelandic 0.2 0.3 $6 $23,500
World Total 801.4 6460 $41,400

As of 2008 by Internet World Stats

Position Language Users (m) Total Population (m) GDP (b)  % all Internet users Internet penetration by language Language growth (2000-2008)%
1 English 430.8 2039 $14129 29.4 21.1 203.5
2 Chinese 276.2 1365 $1127 18.9 20.2 755.1
3 Spanish 124.7 451.9 $3198 8.5 27.6 405.3
4 Japanese 94 127.3 $4326 6.4 73.8 99.7
5 French 68.2 410.5 $2223 4.7 16.6 458.7
6 German 61.2 96.4 $2850 4.2 63.5 121.0
7 Arabic 59.9 357.2 $694 4.1 16.8 2063.7
8 Portuguese 58.2 239.6 $666 4.0 24.3 668.0
9 Korean 34.8 72.7 $605 2.4 47.9 82.9
10 Italian 34.7 58.2 $1490 2.4 59.7 162.9

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ NiteCo - Average Age of Internet Users
  2. ^ Digg Article on the Age Survey
  3. ^ Global Reach (now unavailable); see the last version (September 30, 2004) at the Internet Archive.

[edit] External links

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