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Most common languages used on the internet 2017, by users

Most common languages used on the internet as of March 2017, by number of speakers (in millions)

The data displays the most common languages on the internet, by number of internet users. As of March 2017, English was the most popular language online, representing 952.1 million worldwide internet users. Chinese was ranked second with 763.3 million online speakers. The top ten languages accounted for 77.5% of global internet users.

English 952.1
Chinese 763.3
Spanish 293.8
Arabic 173.5
Portuguese 155
Malaysian language 154.7
Japanese 118.5
Russian 104.5
French 100.6
German 83.9
Other 839.7