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gruseom
Where's Russia?
ilyak
Indeed! And why is it modded down? It would still be something like 80 mln, Ukraine and Belarus included.
mindaugas
Ukraine and Belarus are not Russia :)

EDIT: Usually Eastern and Central Europe are "forgotten" in these surveys and statistics...

ilyak
Isn't it about languages, not countries?

When it's about languages, you count language users.

mindaugas
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think majority of Ukraine and Belarus people speak russian only as a second language.

So we then we should count ukrainians and belorussians separately.

pesho
Russian is also an official language in Belarus, so you should count them in. Ukraine is a different story.
ilyak
You're wrong:

If we're counting this by language, we should figure out how much Ukrainians (or Belorusians) use internet in russian language, primary, and how much don't; and then we should sum up those numbers. Everything else would be a speculation.

csomar
China just doubled in size from 2006 to 2008.

Very interesting, the Internet field is still booming...

jazzychad
I was honestly surprised to see that email was only 6% of internet traffic. Also surprised to see gaming at only 2%.
ilyak
They aren't traffic intensive, even if the number of messages/connections is vast.

Things can change for gaming if they move image rendering into the cloud (which I doubt would work)

csomar
if third world countries raise Internet Bandwidth and Speed and broaden the internet culture
fserb
Very nice. But how come Brazil has more internet users than Germany and India but it shows as having a smaller percentage of the world's internet users?
dtf
Also: 67.5m is supposed to be 26% of Brazil's population, which would make it 260m. The CIA book's 2008 estimate for Brazil's population is only 190m.
aptimpropriety
Why isn't there a subset of web traffic/application for Adult Content?

Perhaps urban myth, but I remember 5-10 years ago people would talk of large percentages of online content consisting of such material.

poutine
Misleading. Having lived in China I can tell you that an Internet user there is nowhere near equivalent to an Internet user in the US in terms of how often and to what extent they use the Internet.

For a more relevant breakdown of sophisticated Internet users by country see: http://downloadstats.mozilla.com/

Another interesting metric would be open source projects per capita.

arendvr
Brazil Number of Internet users: 67,500,000 Percentage of world's internet users: 3.4

India Number of Internet users: 60,000,000 Percentage of world's internet users: 5.2

Either the numbers are seriously messed up, or an Indian is worth 1.7 Brazilians

DrJokepu
Let me point out the obvious; that is, the title of this submission is slightly misleading as this is not a chart of the number of internet users by language, it's a chart of the number of internet users by country of residence. There's no such language such as "US" or "UK", and while there are many notable differences, I wouldn't consider UK English and US English different languages. Obviously, there's also no "Indian" or "Chinese" language.
iamelgringo
My bad. I wrote the title in haste. Sorry about that. The image also leaves out Latin America/Spanish Internet users.
luckyland
I guess this is a somewhat interesting chart, but it's got nothing to do with language except one unqualified prediction about what languages will dominate a future Internet.

Please title your post more appropriately.

Now, about the chart itself...

How did the authors fail to sample Russia - the most demographically significant userbase between N.A/Europe and China/India?