Multilingual internet population
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Internet was originally born in U.S.A., therefore most of the websites were originally written in English, and users wrote in English. The number of non-English sites is growing every year. Multilingual internet population is diverging so rapidly as followings,
| 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | |||||||
| 4 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 4 - 7 | 12 | 2 | 4 - 6 | 7 | 1 | 6 - 10 | 2 - 4 | 7 | |
| English | 63.8% | 63.5% | 58% | 55% | 51.3% | 49.6% | 47.6% | 47.5% | 45.0% | 43.0% | 40.2% | 36.5% | 35.8% |
| non-English | 26.7% | 43.6% | 42% | 45% | 48.7% | 50.4% | 52.4% | 52.5% | 55% | 57.0% | 59.8% | 63.5% | 64.2% |
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