It doesn’t come as a surprise that English is the most used language in the internet. Yet, Chinese is picking up quickly with immense further potential given the fact that internet penetration in China is relatively low.
Graphics: www.substudio.com
Internet Users in China 2000 – 2009
Top Ten Languages in the Internet
As of 2010 – in millions of users
Also Hans Rosling’s statistics suggest huge potential for Asian countries with Africa still lagging behind.
So when in the Western World we think that the internet is a vast source of information, we actually only see the smaller part of the World Wide Web. The bigger part is in writing the rest of us don’t usually understand.