This somewhat risible survey reveals that Perl has almost fallen out of the top 10 programming langauges in use. Given the many different ways that statistics can be mashed together and the loose method of collecting the numbers, I think it is unlikely that they can claim 3 decimal places of accuracy for any of this.
On the other hand, using activity as a barometer of interest in a langugae and perhaps what to brush up on to stay/get employed, take a look at stats on Ohloh. You can pick a basket of languages and compare check-ins and TLOC and decide that actionscript is not about to overtake C++ any time soon.
This page lets you look at a ramge of stats for a language off their long list while this will let you compare a wide range of languages with a pretty chart: take a look at this comparison showing that the volume of Python checkins is growing faster than Perl and Ruby together. Or maybe it is showing the rate of Python projects being added to Ohloh? Who can say?
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