The pie chart shows the number of people who were using different languages online. The table shows the average number of people online each year. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features.

The pie chart demonstrates the percentage of various languages used by people through the net, and the table compares information about the average number of people on the Internet

as well as

their proportion per population of the world between 1997 and 2001.

It is clear that

English was the most popular language, far higher than others, which fell less than 10% each.

Also

, the number of

users

experienced a consistent rise throughout the period. Obviously, English, by roughly half of the

users

, was leading the list,

while

Dutch, by a mere 2.1%, was used slightly less than Portuguese, at 2.6%. The second most popular language was Japanese, which had approximately the same value as Chinese at 8.9% and 8.8%, respectively. The other languages, including French, Italian, Korean, Spanish, and German, constituted between 3 and 7 at most. In August 2001, over 500 million people were using the internet, which made up 8.4% of the total population.

However

, interestingly, only 76 million used it, accounting for 1.8% of the world's inhabitants. Having seen a continuous increase, the number of

users

witnessed the sharpest surge in 2000, by almost 73 million;

nevertheless

, considering their percentage among total humanity, by 2001, the

users

' proportion had risen by about 2.4%, which is the highest increase in total.