Interesting site. According to that graph, it looks like most of the popular languages are dropping quite a bit, but it doesn't show any language taking up the slack. I'm not sure how they are getting their data, but I know of another site.
You may also want to look at the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
http://www.bls.gov/oco/oco1002.htm#comp
is a decent place to start. It shows that there are less than a million SW engineers and less than half a million programmers in the US. So maybe the google search is right and there are 60 million programmers in the world, but maybe not.
Anyway, I'm glad to hear things worked out. No matter which language is selected I think that going through FRC is an amazing way to gain experience.
Greg McKaskle