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, and make comparisons where relevant.

The pie chart illustrates the percentage of several languages used online in December 2001,

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the table presents the ratio of the world population who were active on the Internet between November 1997 and August 2001.

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, the most used language was English,

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the second and third were Japanese and Chinese.

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, the number of the population being online was significantly increased at the given period.

To begin

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with, English was widely utilized worldwide with 43% of the proportion, followed by Japanese and Chinese which had lower proportions at 8.9% and 8.8% consecutively. Other than that, German, Spanish, and Korean percentages were only at 6.8%, 6.5%, and 4.6%, respectively. Meanwhile, the remaining countries

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as Italian, French, Portuguese, Dutch, and others were just around 3% and below. Moving to the table, in November 1997, there were only 76 million people, or just 1.8% of people globally who actively using the Internet.

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, the number grew rapidly until reached 513 million (8.4% of the population) just in the next five years, August 2001.