Internet Statistics:
Distribution of languages on the Internet

Chart of Web content (milions of webpages by language) 2002

English 1142,5 56,4%
German 156,2 7,7%
French 113,1 5,6%
Japanese 98,3 4,9%
Spanish 59,9 3,0%
Chinese 48,2 2,4%
Italian 41,1 2,0%
Dutch 38,8 1,9%
Russian 33,7 1,7%
Korean 30,8 1,5%
Portuguese 29,4 1,5%
Swedish 15,1 0,7%
Polish 14,8 0,7%
Danish 12,3 0,6%
Czech 11,5 0,6%
Turkish 4,9 0,2%
Hungarian 4,1 0,2%
Greek 2,0 0,1%
Other 168,0 8,3%
Total Web pages 2024,7 100,0%

Languages used to access Google in January 2002 (June 2001):

English 57% (64%)
German 12% (9%)
Japanish 7% (8%)
Spanish 6% (5%)
French 5% (4%)
Chinese 3% (1%)
Italian 2% (2%)
Other 8% (4%)

source: www.netz-tipp.de/sprachen.html