These statistics project which countries are expanding, and how much they are expected to grow and spend. World ECommerce Growth Projections and Online Language Use Projections for 2004 - 2005
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Internet Language Use (2004) |
|
Languages |
# Users (2004) |
% of Internet |
|
English |
280 m |
29.7 % |
|
Chinese |
170 m |
18 % |
|
Japanese |
90 m |
9.5 % |
|
Spanish |
68 m |
7.2 % |
|
German |
62 m |
6.5 % |
|
Korean |
43 m |
4.5 % |
|
French |
41 m |
4.3 % |
|
Italian |
35 m |
3.7 % |
|
Portuguese |
32 m |
3.3 % |
|
Russian |
23 m |
2.4 % |
|
Dutch |
13.4 m |
1.4 % |
|
Malay |
12 m |
1.2 % |
|
Polish |
9 m |
1 % |
|
Arabic |
7 m |
0.7 % |
|
Turkish |
7 m |
0.7 % |
|
Swedish |
6.2 m |
0.6 % |
|
Danish |
3.6 m |
0.4 % |
|
Thai |
3.5 m |
0.4 % |
|
Czech |
3.4 m |
0.4 % |
|
Finnish |
3 m |
0.3 % |
|
Greek |
3 m |
0.3 % |
|
Romanian |
3 m |
0.3 % |
|
Hungarian |
3 m |
0.3 % |
|
Norwegian |
2.8 m |
0.3 % |
|
Hebrew |
2.8 m |
0.3 % |
|
Catalan |
2.5 m |
0.3 % |
|
Vietnamese |
1.5 m |
0.2 % |
|
Slovak |
1.5 m |
0.2 % |
|
Iceland |
1 m |
0.1 % |
|
Slovenian |
1 m |
0.1 % |