The corpus is composed of 1.9 billion
words in 1.8 million web pages from 340,000 websites in 20 different
English-speaking countries (more information).
You can download metadata
(country, genre, URL, title, # words, etc) for all 1.8 million web
pages (ZIP file: 88 MB). See also some good examples of using GloWbE
to look at differences between the dialects.
Country |
Code |
General (may also
include blogs) |
(Only) Blogs |
Total |
|
|
Web sites |
Web pages |
Words |
Web sites |
Web pages |
Words |
Web sites |
Web pages |
Words |
United States |
US |
43,249 |
168,771 |
253,536,242 |
48,116 |
106,385 |
133,061,093 |
82,260 |
275,156 |
386,809,355 |
Canada |
CA |
22,178 |
81,644 |
90,846,732 |
16,745 |
54,048 |
43,814,827 |
33,776 |
135,692 |
134,765,381 |
Great Britain |
GB |
39,254 |
232,428 |
255,672,390 |
35,229 |
149,413 |
131,671,002 |
64,351 |
381,841 |
387,615,074 |
Ireland |
IE |
12,978 |
75,432 |
80,530,794 |
5,512 |
26,715 |
20,410,027 |
15,840 |
102,147 |
101,029,231 |
Australia |
AU |
19,619 |
81,683 |
104,716,366 |
13,516 |
47,561 |
43,390,501 |
28,881 |
129,244 |
148,208,169 |
New Zealand |
NZ |
11,202 |
54,862 |
58,698,828 |
4,970 |
27,817 |
22,625,584 |
14,053 |
82,679 |
81,390,476 |
India |
IN |
11,217 |
76,609 |
68,032,551 |
9,289 |
37,156 |
28,310,511 |
18,618 |
113,765 |
96,430,888 |
Sri Lanka |
LK |
3,307 |
25,310 |
33,793,772 |
1,672 |
13,079 |
12,760,726 |
4,208 |
38,389 |
46,583,115 |
Pakistan |
PK |
3,070 |
25,852 |
38,005,985 |
2,899 |
16,917 |
13,332,245 |
4,955 |
42,769 |
51,367,152 |
Bangladesh |
BD |
4,415 |
30,813 |
28,700,158 |
2,332 |
14,246 |
10,922,869 |
5,712 |
45,059 |
39,658,255 |
Singapore |
SG |
5,775 |
28,332 |
29,229,186 |
4,255 |
17,127 |
13,711,412 |
8,339 |
45,459 |
42,974,705 |
Malaysia |
MY |
6,225 |
29,302 |
29,026,896 |
4,591 |
16,299 |
13,357,745 |
8,966 |
45,601 |
42,420,168 |
Philippines |
PH |
6,169 |
28,391 |
29,758,446 |
5,979 |
17,951 |
13,457,087 |
10,224 |
46,342 |
43,250,093 |
Hong Kong |
HK |
6,720 |
27,896 |
27,906,879 |
2,892 |
16,040 |
12,508,796 |
8,740 |
43,936 |
40,450,291 |
South Africa |
ZA |
7,318 |
28,271 |
31,683,286 |
4,566 |
16,993 |
13,645,623 |
10,308 |
45,264 |
45,364,498 |
Nigeria |
NG |
3,448 |
23,329 |
30,622,738 |
2,072 |
13,956 |
11,996,583 |
4,516 |
37,285 |
42,646,098 |
Ghana |
GH |
3,161 |
32,189 |
27,644,721 |
1,053 |
15,162 |
11,088,160 |
3,616 |
47,351 |
38,768,231 |
Kenya |
KE |
4,222 |
31,166 |
28,552,920 |
2,073 |
14,796 |
12,480,777 |
5,193 |
45,962 |
41,069,085 |
Tanzania |
TZ |
3,829 |
27,533 |
24,883,840 |
1,414 |
13,823 |
10,253,840 |
4,575 |
41,356 |
35,169,042 |
Jamaica |
JM |
3,049 |
30,928 |
28,505,416 |
1,049 |
15,820 |
11,124,273 |
3,488 |
46,748 |
39,663,666 |
TOTAL |
|
220,405 |
1,140,741 |
1,300,348,146 |
170,224 |
651,304 |
583,923,681 |
340,619 |
1,792,045 |
1,885,632,973 |
Notes on duplicate texts. |