From Darryl Taft’s “Enterprise Applications: 20 Things You Might Not Know About COBOL (as the Language Turns 50)” (eWeek: September 2009). http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Applications/20-Things-You-Might-Not-Know-About-COBOL-As-the-Language-Turns-50-103943/?kc=EWKNLBOE09252009FEA1. Accessed 25 September 2009.
Five billion lines of new COBOL are developed every year.
More than 80 percent of all daily business transactions are processed in COBOL.
More than 70 percent of all worldwide business data is stored on a mainframe.
More than 70 percent of mission-critical applications are in COBOL.
More than 310 billion lines of software are in use today and more than 200 billion lines are COBOL (65 percent of the total software).
There are 200 times more COBOL transactions per day than Google searches worldwide.
An estimated 2 million people are currently working in COBOL in one form or another.