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The ten most common manual subtitle languages

From Only about one in seven YouTube channels above 10K subscribers uploads its own subtitles · Data as of 10 Oct 2026

The ten most common manual subtitle languages

  • English364,952 (9.1%)
  • Spanish117,380 (2.9%)
  • French82,385 (2.1%)
  • Portuguese79,364 (2.0%)
  • Chinese72,109 (1.8%)
  • German72,054 (1.8%)
  • Russian70,738 (1.8%)
  • Japanese70,529 (1.8%)
  • Hindi66,018 (1.6%)
  • Arabic61,315 (1.5%)
Number of channels with at least one manual subtitle track in each language, and that number as a share of the 4,014,593 channels counted. A channel with several languages appears once per language, so the bars do not add up to the total.

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Only about one in seven YouTube channels above 10K subscribers uploads its own subtitles
We counted which YouTube channels above 10,000 subscribers offer creator-uploaded subtitles, in how many languages, and how that changes with channel size.

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