Country and language statistics

Recently, Wikipedia has published internal statistics about which language versions of Wikipedia in which countries are popular. In particular, the pages are interesting:

• What language sections of Wikipedia are visited by users from a specific country
• Which countries are watching a particular language section

Of course, you need to take into account the error in determining the country by ip-address, especially for countries whose share in traffic is less than 0.001%, but nevertheless, interesting statistics can be found in the statistics.

• From Russia, 1.6% of all requests come to Wikipedia servers.
• The Russian section attracts 2.1% of all requests.
• 70% of requests from Ukraine go to the Russian-language section (the next most popular is English 13% and only then Ukrainian).
• In Norway, the English section is more popular than the Norwegian.
• From Sierra Leone, the Russian section of Wikipedia is accessed more often than the English (embassy staff? Statistical error?).
• The Spanish section has the most queries from Mexico, not from Spain.

I was also interested to see in which countries the positions of national language sections are strong, and in which not so. I compiled a separate tablet about the popularity of the English language section of Wikipedia among Internet users of different countries. Data is given as a percentage of the total number of hits on different language versions of Wikipedia. Apparently, we can talk about how well Internet users from a particular country speak English (prefer information in it) or how well developed are Wikipedia sections in national languages ​​(the better the “local” language section is developed, the less reason to go to English) .

I selected only those countries for which the share in the total Wikipedia traffic is more than 0.05%. Large countries (traffic over 1%) are highlighted.

The country	% of requests to the English section
India	93,4
New Zealand	92.5
Pakistan	92.1
Great Britain	91.6
Philippines	90.5
USA	89
Singapore	89
Ireland	88.8
South Africa	86.4
Canada	84.3
Malaysia	81.3
UAE	76.8
Australia	72.3
Greece	69
Kuwait	67.8
Saudi Arabia	62.5
Serbia	61.8
Croatia	61.2
Romania	58.3
Egypt	57.7
Estonia	57
Denmark	53.1
Puerto rico	51.7
Lithuania	47
Norway	46.8
Bulgaria	46.5
Iran	46,4
South Korea	46.3
Hong Kong	45.3
Latvia	44.5
Slovenia	43
Indonesia	41.6
Slovakia	41.1
Netherlands	40.7
Portugal	40,4
Sweden	40.1
Israel	39,4
Hungary	35.8
Thailand	35.6
China	35,4
Finland	35
Vietnam	30.3
Belgium	29.5
Costa Rica	28.7
Panama	26.1
Turkey	25.8
Czech	24
Luxembourg	23.6
Taiwan	23,2
Tunisia	20.3
Switzerland	20
Dominican Republic	19.1
Morocco	18
Spain	16.9
Chile	16.7
Belarus	15.8
Guatemala	15.6
Argentina	15,2
Austria	14.8
Algeria	14.5
Brazil	14.2
Russia	14
Mexico	13.8
Kazakhstan	13.7
France	13.5
Ukraine	13,2
Italy	13.1
Venezuela	12.6
Uruguay	12.5
Peru	12
Ecuador	11.9
Poland	11.7
Germany	11.6
Colombia	9,4
Japan	3.3

Well, in the appendage, a list of countries among which the Russian language is popular among Wikipedia users (in percentage with respect to all requests)

The country	% of requests to the Russian section
Russia	81.9
Kazakhstan	79.5
Belarus	78.8
Ukraine	70.5
Latvia	30.8
Estonia	13.8
Lithuania	6.5
Israel	4.8
Norway	2.1
Bulgaria	2
Romania	1,6
Czech	1
Denmark	1