A on-line Marketing company Global Reach recently published an global on-line population statistics. Here is a summary of the number of people in each language zone connected to the Net, and what this online population represents
worldwide:
English†† 262.3 M (35.6% of total world online population)
Non-English 474.3 M (64.4%)
European Languages† 257.41 M† (34.9%)
Spanish††† 58.8 M† (8.0%)
German†††† 51.6 M† (7.0%)
Italian††† 27.4 M† (3.7%)
French†††† 22.7 M† (3.3%)
Portuguese 19.4 M† (2.6%)
†† …
Asian Languages† 216.9 M† (29.9%)
Chinese†† 90.0 M† (12.4%)
Japanese† 69.7 M† ( 9.6%)
Korean††† 29.2 M† ( 4.0%)
