The pie chart illustrates the proportion of individuals using several languages online, while the table compares the average number of people online every year.
Overall, the highest number of people use English as their online language, whereas the lowest number of people were online in November 1997.
The maximum number of people who use the internet prefer to use English as their online language, reportedly 43% of total internet population.However, 8.2% of the individuals use Japanese and 8.8% of people use Chinese as their online language. Additionally, 6.8% of total population use German, whereas 6.5% of pupils choose Spanish as their internet language. By contrast, only 2.1% of individuals use Dutch as their online language, which is the lowest proportion in the chart.
Moving on to the table, in November 1997, only 76 million people were online worldwide. In the following year, the number of pupils who were active on the internet almost doubled from the last year, accounting for 147 million. The number continued to rise throughout the period, reaching 513 million in August 2001, which is 8.4% of the total world population.
