Years 1996 - 2005
Image Source: Peter Gerrand
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
There are now 1.7 billion Internet users
I had intended to provide a graph from this site showing Internet penetration by region to jazz up the posting, but the site copyrights the figure rather than put it in the public domain. So here is an alternative image,
Check out Internet World Stats, the source of the estimate of current users.
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If you check out my JCMC paper from which you have quoted this graph (itself taken from the now defunct Global_Reach.biz website), you will find that Global Reach's estimates of the relative decline of English and the relative increase in all other major languages over 1996-2005 are quite erroneous. Global Reach's methodology, which regrettably is also used now by Internet World Stats, was based upon estimates of language speaker populations, and not upon any measurements of web presence or any other form of actual Internet usage.
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