The pie chart illustrates the figures for the majority who were using different languages. The table shows the average number of people online manually.
Overall, based on these charts, what stands out is that the members of society attending English courses make up the highest proportion in these fields, compared with the minority using Dutch. The table shows the overall trend of the data about people using various languages online each year.
Getting back to the details, 43% of people online were using English in the total of 529 million in 2001, which is almost 5 times more than Japanese and Chinese in second and third place with approximately 9%. Moreover, German and Spanish had roughly 7%. In addition, Korean and Italian combined had 8.4%, which is about 5.1% more than French and 6.3% more than Portuguese.
Furthermore, it can easily be seen that the percentage of the world population using the online world increased from 76 million in November 1997 to 513 million in August 2001, which is about 6.6%.