Last year, China added 36 million Internet users, bringing their total to 440 million. The United States only has 220 million Internet users, but English is spoken in more countries than China, and so more websites are published in that language.
That shouldn't be much of a surprise, with China becoming an increasingly powerful country in many ways. China is now the largest space polluter, and produces more greenhouse emissions than the United States, contributing to global warming.
The Next Web put together a pretty neat infographic about the most popular languages on the Internet based on information from Internet World Stats, an Internet marketing firm.
Of the 2 billion people who use the Internet each month, 537 million speak primarily English, while 444 million speak Chinese. But the Internet penetration among English speakers is 42 percent, while 32.6 percent of people who speak Chinese have access to the Internet. That gives Chinese a greater potential for expansion than English.
As Gizmag points out, China has several policies in place to support the growth of the Chinese language. China's General Administration of Press and Publication website recently announced that the mixing of foreign words in Chinese language publications without an accompanying Chinese language translation has been banned. That includes many uses of common English sayings, abbreviations and people that have become popular in Chinese language publications in recent years.
When exactly Chinese will become the most popular language on the Internet is less certain. The Next Web predicts it will be sometime in the next five years.
When do you think Chinese will become the most popular language online? Or, are you convinced English will always be more popular? Let us know in the comments section below.
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