More people communicate in English than any other one language, according to the latest statistics, but the number of non-English speakers is easily the majority:
“We have just published an update to the Global Internet Statistics page:
Here is a summary of the number of people in each language zone connected to the Net, and what this online population represents worldwide:
- English 262.3 M (35.6% of total world online population)
- Non-English 474.3 M (64.4%)
European Languages 257.41 M (34.9%)
- Spanish 58.8 M (8.0%)
- German 51.6 M (7.0%)
- Italian 27.4 M (3.7%)
- French 22.7 M (3.3%)
- Portuguese 19.4 M (2.6%)
- Asian Languages 216.9 M (29.9%)
- Chinese 90.0 M (12.4%)
- Japanese 69.7 M ( 9.6%)
- Korean 29.2 M ( 4.0%)