The pie chart depicts the amount of people that were using various languages across the internet, in the year 2001. The table proivdes the information for average number of people online, between the years 1997 to 2001.
Overall, English is the most used language across the internet, similar percentage of other languages was observed. The number of people that were using web has observed a steady increased.
To begin with, usage of english language was maximum 43%. Followed by, Japanase and Chinese that were having 8% of users online. German, Spanish, Korean, Italian, French, Portuguese, and Dutch speaker were 6.8%, 6.5%, 4,6%, 3.8%, 3.3%, 2.6%, and 2.1%, respectively. However, people using other language were also present.
In November 1997, number of people online was 76 millions, 1.8% of world population.The amount increased to 147 millions, in September 1998. That year doubled the percentage of world population online. Number kept rising 195, 368, to 513 in a span of three years.In August 2001, 8.4% of world population was online.