The Pie chart provides information about the frequency of different languages on online platforms. Meanwhile, the following table illustrates the number of individuals who had access to the Internet each year over 4 years from 1997 to 2001.
Overall, from the pie chart, it can clearly be seen that English was by far the popular language on the Internet. It is also worth mentioning that the number of people who were online increased significantly from November 1997 to August 2001.
According to the pie chart, in December 2001, 529 million individuals used the Internet regularly. At this time, English accounted for the highest proportion of total languages that are used online, with 43%. The percentage of people who use other languages was considerably lower. For example, Japanese and Chinese made up 8.9% and 8.8%, respectively. followed by Genman with 6.8% and Spanish with 6.5%. Other frequent languages were used less than 5%, like Korean (4.6%), Italian (3.8%), French (3.3%), Portuguese (2.6%), and Dutch (2.1%). Moreover, other unpopular languages constituted for residual percent.
In addition, from the table, in November 1997, merely 1.8% of the world’s population (i.e., 76 million) had access to the Internet. Until August 2001, the number of online individuals showed a sharp growth to 513 million, which was 8.4% of the total world population.