Interesting Governmental Report about Egyptian Blogs
The Information and Decision Support Center in Egypt published an interesting report about Egyptian blogs, which revealed that the total number of Egyptian blogs in April 2008 was 160,000 blogs, while the total Arabian blogs in the same month was 490,000 blogs, the report included all service providers; maktoob, blogspot, jeeran… etc.
Numbers didn’t seem quite right to me, according to the report, Jeeran hosts 116,192 Egyptian blogs, even though on Jeeran you can search through 98,178 blogs only, go to their website and you can see it, either the numbers of the report are not correct at all, or the majority of Jeeran blogs are private and don’t appear in search results.
Some figures about Egyptian blogs:
67.8% of Egyptian bloggers use Arabic language, 9.5% blog in English, while 20.8% are mixed.
73% of the Egyptian bloggers are males, and 27% are females.
53.1% of the Egyptian bloggers are between 20 – 30 years old.
79.2% of Egyptian bloggers blog from inside Egypt while 20.8% blog from outside.
82.1% of Egyptian blogs come from Cairo, while 17.9% come from rest of Egypt.
Egyptian blogs by topic:
30.7% General, 18.9% Political, 15.5% Personal, 14.4% Arts & Culture, 7% Religious, 4.8% Social, 4% Science & Technology
Out of 10 frequently mentioned characters in Egyptian blogs, 6 were Politicians, 3 were Artists and Cultural Names, and 1 was Religious, the main three mentioned names were: Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), President Husni Mubarak, and his son Gamal Mubarak.
International figures:
According to the report, 100,000 new blogs used to be created on daily basis in November 2006, while in April 2007 it was 120,000. So basically we’re talking about 43,800,000 new blogs a year, I don’t think this seem to be right.
Top 10 blogging languages:
The report mentioned that the total number of blogs in the world was 70,000,000 in April 2008, and Arabic wasn’t among the top 10 languages in the world.
37% Japanese
36% English
8% Chinese
3% Italian
3% Spanish
2% Russian
2% French
2% Portuguese
1% German
1% Persian
5% Other
To download the report, click here!
