The pie chart illustrates different languages that were used by people online in December 2001. The table depicts the average amount of people online from November 1997 to August 2001.
As can be seen from the table, the number of people online was increasing steadily between 1997 and 2001, having 1.8% and 8.4% respectively. The popularity of using the internet has grown almost five times.
The first noticeable thing in the pie chart is that slightly more that two fifth of people online used English, making it the most widely-spoken on the internet. Another key feature is that Japanese and Chinese had almost the same number of users as well as Spanish and German. The least common languages were Dutch, Portuguese and French, having 2.1%, 2.6% and 3.3% respectively. Italian and Korean, in their turn, were used by 3.8% and 4.6% of 529 million users in 2001. Finally, other languages, having approximately 9% of people, were slightly more popular than Japanese and Chinese.
