Number of Internet users by language (pic)

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by iamelgringo • 17 years ago

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gruseom• 17 years ago

Where's Russia?

ilyak4• 17 years ago

Indeed! And why is it modded down? It would still be something like 80 mln, Ukraine and Belarus included.

mindaugas2• 17 years ago

Ukraine and Belarus are not Russia :)

EDIT: Usually Eastern and Central Europe are "forgotten" in these surveys and statistics...

csomar2• 17 years ago

China just doubled in size from 2006 to 2008.

Very interesting, the Internet field is still booming...

jazzychad• 17 years ago

I was honestly surprised to see that email was only 6% of internet traffic. Also surprised to see gaming at only 2%.

ilyak4• 17 years ago

They aren't traffic intensive, even if the number of messages/connections is vast.

Things can change for gaming if they move image rendering into the cloud (which I doubt would work)

csomar2• 17 years ago

if third world countries raise Internet Bandwidth and Speed and broaden the internet culture

fserb• 17 years ago

Very nice. But how come Brazil has more internet users than Germany and India but it shows as having a smaller percentage of the world's internet users?

dtf• 17 years ago

Also: 67.5m is supposed to be 26% of Brazil's population, which would make it 260m. The CIA book's 2008 estimate for Brazil's population is only 190m.

aptimpropriety• 17 years ago

Why isn't there a subset of web traffic/application for Adult Content?

Perhaps urban myth, but I remember 5-10 years ago people would talk of large percentages of online content consisting of such material.

poutine• 17 years ago

Misleading. Having lived in China I can tell you that an Internet user there is nowhere near equivalent to an Internet user in the US in terms of how often and to what extent they use the Internet.

For a more relevant breakdown of sophisticated Internet users by country see: http://downloadstats.mozilla.com/

Another interesting metric would be open source projects per capita.

arendvr• 17 years ago

Brazil Number of Internet users: 67,500,000 Percentage of world's internet users: 3.4

India Number of Internet users: 60,000,000 Percentage of world's internet users: 5.2

Either the numbers are seriously messed up, or an Indian is worth 1.7 Brazilians

DrJokepu• 17 years ago

Let me point out the obvious; that is, the title of this submission is slightly misleading as this is not a chart of the number of internet users by language, it's a chart of the number of internet users by country of residence. There's no such language such as "US" or "UK", and while there are many notable differences, I wouldn't consider UK English and US English different languages. Obviously, there's also no "Indian" or "Chinese" language.

iamelgringo• 17 years ago

My bad. I wrote the title in haste. Sorry about that. The image also leaves out Latin America/Spanish Internet users.

luckyland• 17 years ago

I guess this is a somewhat interesting chart, but it's got nothing to do with language except one unqualified prediction about what languages will dominate a future Internet.

Please title your post more appropriately.

Now, about the chart itself...

How did the authors fail to sample Russia - the most demographically significant userbase between N.A/Europe and China/India?

compay• 17 years ago

Having no Spanish speaking countries on the map makes that woefully incomplete. There are more native speakers of Spanish on Earth than English.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_....

Number of Internet users by language (pic)

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