The global internet penetration rate is 60%. There are nearly 7,000 languages and dialects globally. Only 7% are reflected in online material. 98% of the internet’s pages are published in just 12 languages, more than half of them are in English.
It’s a long road to inclusive.
Sources on internet penetration and representation of languages on the internet:
- statista.com/statistics/617…
- linguisticsociety.org/content/how-ma…
- whoseknowledge.org/wp-content/upl…
- unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0…
- w3techs.com/technologies/o…