As of February 2025, English was the most popular language for web content, with over 49.4 percent of websites using it. Spanish ranked second, with six percent of web content, while the content in the German language followed, with 5.6 percent. English as the leading online language United States and India, the countries with the most internet users after China, are also the world's biggest English-speaking markets. The internet user base in both countries combined, as of January 2023, was over a billion individuals. This has led to most of the online information being created in English. Consequently, even those who are not native speakers may use it for convenience. Global internet usage by regions As of October 2024, the number of internet users worldwide was 5.52 billion. In the same period, Northern Europe and North America were leading in terms of internet penetration rates worldwide, with around 97 percent of its populations accessing the internet.

Thailand Market Share Proportion: High Speed Internet: Fiber Optical data was reported at 47.230 % in Sep 2019. This records an increase from the previous number of 44.720 % for Jun 2019. Thailand Market Share Proportion: High Speed Internet: Fiber Optical data is updated quarterly, averaging 33.810 % from Mar 2016 (Median) to Sep 2019, with 15 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 47.230 % in Sep 2019 and a record low of 16.130 % in Mar 2016. Thailand Market Share Proportion: High Speed Internet: Fiber Optical data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Office of The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Thailand – Table TH.TB003: Internet Statistics: Office of The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission .

Thailand Market Share Proportion: High Speed Internet: Cable Broadband data was reported at 13.610 % in Sep 2019. This records a decrease from the previous number of 14.940 % for Jun 2019. Thailand Market Share Proportion: High Speed Internet: Cable Broadband data is updated quarterly, averaging 15.820 % from Mar 2016 (Median) to Sep 2019, with 15 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 18.510 % in Dec 2017 and a record low of 8.800 % in Dec 2016. Thailand Market Share Proportion: High Speed Internet: Cable Broadband data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Office of The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Thailand – Table TH.TB003: Internet Statistics: Office of The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission .

United Kingdom E Commerce: Internet Access: 1000+ Employees data was reported at 99.600 % in 2016. This records an increase from the previous number of 98.900 % for 2015. United Kingdom E Commerce: Internet Access: 1000+ Employees data is updated yearly, averaging 99.550 % from Dec 2007 (Median) to 2016, with 10 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 99.600 % in 2016 and a record low of 98.900 % in 2015. United Kingdom E Commerce: Internet Access: 1000+ Employees data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Office for National Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United Kingdom – Table UK.S032: E Commerce: Proportion of Businesses With Internet Access and Type of Connection.

As of February 2025, China ranked first among the countries with the most internet users worldwide. The world's most populated country had 1.11 billion internet users, more than triple the third-ranked United States, with just around 322 million internet users. Overall, all BRIC markets had over two billion internet users, accounting for four of the ten countries with more than 100 million internet users. Worldwide internet usage As of October 2024, there were more than five billion internet users worldwide. There are, however, stark differences in user distribution according to region. Eastern Asia is home to 1.34 billion internet users, while African and Middle Eastern regions had lower user figures. Moreover, the urban areas showed a higher percentage of internet access than rural areas. Internet use in China China ranks first in the list of countries with the most internet users. Due to its ongoing and fast-paced economic development and a cultural inclination towards technology, more than a billion of the estimated 1.4 billion population in China are online. As of the third quarter of 2023, around 87 percent of Chinese internet users stated using WeChat, the most popular social network in the country. On average, Chinese internet users spent five hours and 33 minutes online daily.

For the past several censuses, the Census Bureau has invited people to self-respond before following up in-person using census takers. The 2010 Census invited people to self-respond predominately by returning paper questionnaires in the mail. The 2020 Census allows people to self-respond in three ways: online, by phone, or by mail. The 2020 Census self-response rates are self-response rates for current census geographies. These rates are the daily and cumulative self-response rates for all housing units that received invitations to self-respond to the 2020 Census. The 2020 Census self-response rates are available for states, counties, census tracts, congressional districts, towns and townships, consolidated cities, incorporated places, tribal areas, and tribal census tracts. The Self-Response Rate of Los Angeles County is 65.1% for 2020 Census, which is slightly lower than 69.6% of California State rate. More information about these data are available in the Self-Response Rates Map Data and Technical Documentation document associated with the 2020 Self-Response Rates Map or review our FAQs. Animated Self-Response Rate 2010 vs 2020 is available at ESRI site SRR Animated Maps and can explore Census 2020 SRR data at ESRI Demographic site Census 2020 SSR Data. Following Demographic Characteristics are included in this data and web maps to visualize their relationships with Census Self-Response Rate (SRR)..1. Population Density2. Poverty Rate3. Median Household income4. Education Attainment5. English Speaking Ability6. Household without Internet Access7. Non-Hispanic White Population8. Non-Hispanic African-American Population9. Non-Hispanic Asian Population10. Hispanic Population

Abstract: The aim of this study is to gain insights into the attitudes of the population towards big data practices and the factors influencing them. To this end, a nationwide survey (N = 1,331), representative of the population of Germany, addressed the attitudes about selected big data practices exemplified by four scenarios, which may have a direct impact on the personal lifestyle. The scenarios contained price discrimination in retail, credit scoring, differentiations in health insurance, and differentiations in employment. The attitudes about the scenarios were set into relation to demographic characteristics, personal value orientations, knowledge about computers and the internet, and general attitudes about privacy and data protection. Another focus of the study is on the institutional framework of privacy and data protection, because the realization of benefits or risks of big data practices for the population also depends on the knowledge about the rights the institutional framework provided to the population and the actual use of those rights. As results, several challenges for the framework by big data practices were confirmed, in particular for the elements of informed consent with privacy policies, purpose limitation, and the individuals’ rights to request information about the processing of personal data and to have these data corrected or erased. TechnicalRemarks: TYPE OF SURVEY AND METHODS The data set includes responses to a survey conducted by professionally trained interviewers of a social and market research company in the form of computer-aided telephone interviews (CATI) from 2017-02 to 2017-04. The target population was inhabitants of Germany aged 18 years and more, who were randomly selected by using the sampling approaches ADM eASYSAMPLe (based on the Gabler-Häder method) for landline connections and eASYMOBILe for mobile connections. The 1,331 completed questionnaires comprise 44.2 percent mobile and 55.8 percent landline phone respondents. Most questions had options to answer with a 5-point rating scale (Likert-like) anchored with ‘Fully agree’ to ‘Do not agree at all’, or ‘Very uncomfortable’ to ‘Very comfortable’, for instance. Responses by the interviewees were weighted to obtain a representation of the entire German population (variable ‘gewicht’ in the data sets). To this end, standard weighting procedures were applied to reduce differences between the sample and the entire population with regard to known rates of response and non-response depending on household size, age, gender, educational level, and place of residence. RELATED PUBLICATION AND FURTHER DETAILS The questionnaire, analysis and results will be published in the corresponding report (main text in English language, questionnaire in Appendix B in German language of the interviews and English translation). The report will be available as open access publication at KIT Scientific Publishing (https://www.ksp.kit.edu/). Reference: Orwat, Carsten; Schankin, Andrea (2018): Attitudes towards big data practices and the institutional framework of privacy and data protection - A population survey, KIT Scientific Report 7753, Karlsruhe: KIT Scientific Publishing. FILE FORMATS The data set of responses is saved for the repository KITopen at 2018-11 in the following file formats: comma-separated values (.csv), tapulator-separated values (.dat), Excel (.xlx), Excel 2007 or newer (.xlxs), and SPSS Statistics (.sav). The questionnaire is saved in the following file formats: comma-separated values (.csv), Excel (.xlx), Excel 2007 or newer (.xlxs), and Portable Document Format (.pdf). PROJECT AND FUNDING The survey is part of the project Assessing Big Data (ABIDA) (from 2015-03 to 2019-02), which receives funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany (grant no. 01IS15016A-F). http://www.abida.de

Bulgaria Regular Internet Users: Individual data was reported at 81.900 % in 2024. This records an increase from the previous number of 79.800 % for 2023. Bulgaria Regular Internet Users: Individual data is updated yearly, averaging 54.150 % from Dec 2004 (Median) to 2024, with 20 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 81.900 % in 2024 and a record low of 13.500 % in 2004. Bulgaria Regular Internet Users: Individual data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Statistical Institute. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Bulgaria – Table BG.TB001: Regural Internet Users: Percentage of Individuals Aged 16 to 74.

Bulgaria Regular Internet Users: Individual: South Central Region data was reported at 77.600 % in 2024. This records a decrease from the previous number of 78.000 % for 2023. Bulgaria Regular Internet Users: Individual: South Central Region data is updated yearly, averaging 49.109 % from Dec 2004 (Median) to 2024, with 20 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 78.000 % in 2023 and a record low of 11.600 % in 2004. Bulgaria Regular Internet Users: Individual: South Central Region data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Statistical Institute. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Bulgaria – Table BG.TB001: Regural Internet Users: Percentage of Individuals Aged 16 to 74.

Bulgaria Regular Internet Users: Individual: Economically Inactive: Others data was reported at 57.100 % in 2024. This records an increase from the previous number of 51.700 % for 2023. Bulgaria Regular Internet Users: Individual: Economically Inactive: Others data is updated yearly, averaging 17.600 % from Dec 2004 (Median) to 2024, with 20 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 57.100 % in 2024 and a record low of 1.800 % in 2004. Bulgaria Regular Internet Users: Individual: Economically Inactive: Others data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Statistical Institute. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Bulgaria – Table BG.TB001: Regural Internet Users: Percentage of Individuals Aged 16 to 74.

In 2025, there were around 1.53 billion people worldwide who spoke English either natively or as a second language, slightly more than the 1.18 billion Mandarin Chinese speakers at the time of survey. Hindi and Spanish accounted for the third and fourth most widespread languages that year. Languages in the United States The United States does not have an official language, but the country uses English, specifically American English, for legislation, regulation, and other official pronouncements. The United States is a land of immigration, and the languages spoken in the United States vary as a result of the multicultural population. The second most common language spoken in the United States is Spanish or Spanish Creole, which over than 43 million people spoke at home in 2023. There were also 3.5 million Chinese speakers (including both Mandarin and Cantonese),1.8 million Tagalog speakers, and 1.57 million Vietnamese speakers counted in the United States that year. Different languages at home The percentage of people in the United States speaking a language other than English at home varies from state to state. The state with the highest percentage of population speaking a language other than English is California. About 45 percent of its population was speaking a language other than English at home in 2023.

Lithuania ICT Usage: Individual Persons: Internet data was reported at 77.600 % in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 74.400 % for 2016. Lithuania ICT Usage: Individual Persons: Internet data is updated yearly, averaging 59.800 % from Mar 2003 (Median) to 2017, with 15 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 77.600 % in 2017 and a record low of 24.400 % in 2003. Lithuania ICT Usage: Individual Persons: Internet data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistics Lithuania. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Lithuania – Table LT.TB001: ICT Usage: Households and Individual Persons. The data on Internet Usage of Individual Persons represents internet users as a per cent of total population.

Lithuania ICT Usage: Public Administration (PA): Percent of Employees (PE): Internet data was reported at 81.500 % in 2018. This records a decrease from the previous number of 83.400 % for 2016. Lithuania ICT Usage: Public Administration (PA): Percent of Employees (PE): Internet data is updated yearly, averaging 62.150 % from Jan 2003 (Median) to 2018, with 10 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 83.400 % in 2016 and a record low of 40.500 % in 2003. Lithuania ICT Usage: Public Administration (PA): Percent of Employees (PE): Internet data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistics Lithuania. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Lithuania – Table LT.TB003: ICT Usage: Public Administration.

United Kingdom E Commerce: IC: Max Speed: <2Mbps: 1000+ Employees data was reported at 0.200 % in 2016. This records an increase from the previous number of 0.100 % for 2015. United Kingdom E Commerce: IC: Max Speed: <2Mbps: 1000+ Employees data is updated yearly, averaging 0.400 % from Dec 2010 (Median) to 2016, with 7 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2.000 % in 2010 and a record low of 0.100 % in 2015. United Kingdom E Commerce: IC: Max Speed: <2Mbps: 1000+ Employees data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Office for National Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s UK – Table UK.S034: E Commerce: Proportion of Businesses by Maximum Contracted Internet Connection Speed.

United Kingdom E Commerce: IC: Max Speed: >100Mbps:50-249 Employees data was reported at 27.100 % in 2016. This records an increase from the previous number of 21.500 % for 2015. United Kingdom E Commerce: IC: Max Speed: >100Mbps:50-249 Employees data is updated yearly, averaging 12.200 % from Dec 2010 (Median) to 2016, with 7 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 27.100 % in 2016 and a record low of 8.700 % in 2011. United Kingdom E Commerce: IC: Max Speed: >100Mbps:50-249 Employees data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Office for National Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s UK – Table UK.S034: E Commerce: Proportion of Businesses by Maximum Contracted Internet Connection Speed.

United Kingdom E Commerce: IC: Max Speed: >100Mbps:250-999 Employees data was reported at 38.900 % in 2016. This records a decrease from the previous number of 40.100 % for 2015. United Kingdom E Commerce: IC: Max Speed: >100Mbps:250-999 Employees data is updated yearly, averaging 22.300 % from Dec 2010 (Median) to 2016, with 7 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 40.100 % in 2015 and a record low of 11.500 % in 2010. United Kingdom E Commerce: IC: Max Speed: >100Mbps:250-999 Employees data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Office for National Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United Kingdom – Table UK.S034: E Commerce: Proportion of Businesses by Maximum Contracted Internet Connection Speed.

United Kingdom E Commerce: IC: Max Speed: 10<30Mbps data was reported at 24.100 % in 2016. This records an increase from the previous number of 22.500 % for 2015. United Kingdom E Commerce: IC: Max Speed: 10<30Mbps data is updated yearly, averaging 24.100 % from Dec 2010 (Median) to 2016, with 7 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 26.100 % in 2013 and a record low of 21.200 % in 2010. United Kingdom E Commerce: IC: Max Speed: 10<30Mbps data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Office for National Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United Kingdom – Table UK.S034: E Commerce: Proportion of Businesses by Maximum Contracted Internet Connection Speed.