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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)
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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 |
217.8 |
45.0% |
230 |
500 |
$12,257 |
29.8% |
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| Non-English |
266.3 |
55.0% |
560 |
5600 |
$28,843 |
70.2% |
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European Languages
(non-English) |
144.4 |
29.8% |
290 |
1,089 |
$10,550 |
25.7% |
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| Catalan |
0.61 2 |
|
8 |
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| Czech |
0.35 3 |
|
3 |
10.3 |
$121 |
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$11.1 |
113 |
| Dutch |
9.64 |
2.0% |
10 |
20 |
$527 |
1.3% |
$23.5 |
1622 |
| Finnish |
2.3 5 |
|
4 |
5.1 |
$109 |
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$21 |
772 |
| French |
16.6 6 |
3.4% |
30 |
72 |
$1659 |
4.0% |
$23.4 |
1996 |
| German |
30.07 |
6.2% |
46 |
98 |
$2196 |
5.3% |
$22.8 |
2999 |
| Greek |
1.5 8 |
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3 |
14 |
$149 |
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$10.6 |
148 |
| Hungarian |
0.8 9 |
|
3 |
15 |
$79 |
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$7.5 |
159 |
| Italian |
17.5 10 |
3.6% |
23 |
57 |
$1212 |
2.9% |
$21.41 |
1653 |
| Polish |
3.1 11 |
|
6 |
44 |
$277 |
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$7.2 |
372 |
| Portuguese |
12.1 12 |
2.5% |
32 |
170 |
$1208 |
2.9% |
$6.6 |
1055 |
| Romanian |
0.6 13 |
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$87 |
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$3.9 |
41 |
| Russian |
9.3 14 |
1.9% |
15 |
170 |
$620 |
1.5% |
$4.2 |
360 |
| Danish |
2.6 15 |
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5 |
$128 |
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$23.7 |
436 |
| Icelandic |
0.14 15 |
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.3 |
$6 |
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$23.5 |
44 |
| Norwegian |
2.4 15 |
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4.5 |
$111 |
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$25.1 |
525 |
| Swedish |
5.0 15 |
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10 |
$184 |
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$20.7 |
764 |
| Scandinavian languages (total) |
10.1 15 |
2.2% |
12 |
19.3 |
$429 |
1.0% |
|
1769 |
| Slovak |
0.7 16 |
|
1 |
5.4 |
$46 |
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$8.5 |
37 |
| Slovenian |
0.46 17 |
|
1 |
5.4 |
$21 |
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$10.9 |
24 |
| Spanish |
20.4 18 |
4.5% |
60 |
332 |
$2600 |
6.3% |
$7 |
1731 |
| Turkish |
2.2 19 |
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3 |
66 |
$409 |
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$6.4 |
114 |
| TOTAL EUROPEAN LANGUAGES (excl. English) |
144.4 |
29.8% |
290 |
1,089 |
$10,550 |
25.7% |
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14,965 |
| ASIAN LANGUAGES |
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| Arabic |
4.1 20 |
0.9% |
6 |
130 |
$1012 |
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$4.7 |
51 |
| Chinese |
40.7 21 |
8.4% |
160 |
885 |
$5570 |
13.4% |
|
2345 |
| Hebrew |
1.0 22 |
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6 |
$105 |
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$18.2 |
180 |
| Japanese |
47.3 23 |
9.8% |
58 |
125 |
$2,950 |
7.2% |
$23.4 |
4640 |
| Korean |
22.724 |
4.7% |
35 |
75 |
$626 |
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$13.3 |
398 |
| Malay |
3.9 25 |
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|
200 |
$784 |
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$3.3 |
121 |
| Thai |
2.3 26 |
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61 |
$389 |
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$6.4 |
63 |
| TOTAL ASIAN LANGUAGES |
121.9 |
25.2% |
270 |
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7789
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| TOTAL WORLD |
476 |
|
793 |
6,100 |
$41,400 |
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| Editor:
Global Reach has been tracking non-English online populations since
1995. You can see a graph of the growth of these online populations
by clicking here.
 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.
Global Reach also edits several newsletters
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Last revised on 30 June,
2001
URL: Global Reach (glreach.com/globstats) |
