Chinese: The New Dominant Language of the Internet

Chinese: 420 The New Dominant 384 Language of the Internet 250 ---- 253 200 | 2% 3.3 % 3.0 % 150 5.0 % Chinese 173.1% 100 Language Growth 1,277.4 % 50 on the Internet (2000 - 2010) O million 989.6% Portuguese In 2010 there is a 91,616,824 281.2% million person difference between the number of people online using English, and those using Chinese. English 743.2% As China grew by more 36 million internet users in the last year, it Spanish would (theoretically) take less than three years (at current rates) for Chinese to overtake English. However, not everyone in China uses Chinese online and so forth, 3.0 % and the number of English speakers is still rising. Given all of that, it seems very fair to say that in five years, Chinese will be the dominant language online. 17.8 % World Online Language Breakdown (2010): Top 10 Languages on the Internet Internet Penetration by Language Internet Users by Language English 536,564,837 42.0 % Total market penetration for the internet in English speaking countries is higher than in China. This gives these countries (and their language) much less room to grow, apart from natural population growth and immigration. 2 Chinese 444,948,013 32.6 % Spanish 153,309,074 36,5 % 4 Japanese 99,143,700 78.2 % Portuguese 82,548,200 33.0 % 6. German This contrasts with China, which has relatively low penetration, and thu expand quickly. Chinese is already number two, and it willI become number one shortly. 75,158,584 78.6 % uch room to Arabic 65,365,400 18.8 % 8 French 59,779,525 17.2 % Russian 59,700,000 42.8 % 10 Korean 39,440,000 Sources: http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm http://www.internetworldstats.com/asia/cn.htm 55.2 % Top 10 Languages 1,615,957,333 36.4 % Rest of the Languages 350,557,483 14.6 % World Total 1,966,514,816 28.7 % English - Chinese 91,616,824 difference THE NEXT WEB Infographic Design: Michael Paukner, substudio*com 00E 350 00t 450 million Russian 22.6 % Arabic Korean 4.2 % Japanese 110.6% 7.8 % 27.3 % Internet Users % of Total 3.8 % German 588.5% * Rest rench : 398.2%