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Table 1 Estimates of the top ten languages in the Internet (as of 2011)

From: The landscape of PreK-12 engineering online resources for teachers: global trends

 

Top ten languages in the Internet

Internet users by language

Internet users (% of total)

World population

Internet accessibility (%)

 

English

565,004,126

26.8%

1,302,275,670

43.4

 

Chinese

509,965,013

24.2%

1,372,226,042

37.2

 

Spanish

164,968,742

7.8%

423,085,806

39.0

 

Japanese

99,182,000

4.7%

126,475,664

78.4

 

Portuguese

82,586,600

3.9%

253,947,594

32.5

 

German

75,422,674

3.6%

94,842,656

79.5

 

Arabic

65,365,400

3.3%

347,002,991

18.8

 

French

59,779,525

3.0%

347,932,305

17.2

 

Russian

59,700,000

3.0%

139,390,205

42.8

 

Korean

39,440,000

2.0%

71,393,343

55.2

Top ten languages

 

1,615,957,333

82.2%

4,442,056,069

36.4

Rest of the languages

 

350,557,483

17.8%

2,403,553,891

14.6

World total

 

2,099,926,965

100.0%

6,930,055,154

30.3

Total of six languages

 

1,404,522,806

67.10%

3,863,916,157

36.3

  1. Languages in italics are the languages examined in this paper. Source: Internal World Stats: Usage and Population Statistics. Retrieved from http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm.