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by Rochus 1155 days ago
Quoted from Taulli, T. (2022): "Modern Mainframe Development", O’Reilly Media, Inc, p. 63:

"Every day 200 times more COBOL transactions are performed versus Google searches.

More than 220 billion lines of code are running today, or about 80% of the world’s total.

About 1.5 billion new lines of COBOL are written each year."

IBM sells and maintains much of the "Big Iron" mainframes running COBOL and provides development services.

See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainframe_computer