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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