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While the "top N" password lists are likely english centric, the other parts of the analysis aren't.

Things like "length of password" or "percentage of users using their name/email in their password" is not something that is language dependent.

That said, the wording of some of the passages appears to be one of "India is better than China at passwords." As the author appears to be Indian ("1.5 lac") there could be a hint of nationalism in this.

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Length of password is partially dependent on language (e.g German words tend to be longer on average).

Also, many languages have their own diacritic characters (å, ä, ö, etc.), which, when used in password, will be counted as "special characters" (because they do not match standard [a-zA-Z0-9] regexp).

So yes, password safety is at least partially influenced by user's language.