German is spoken in 40 countries.
There are an estimated 100 million native German speakers.
When those who speak it as a second language are included,
the total becomes 180 million people.
as of 2012, approximately 80 million non-Germans speak German as a second language.
The Wikipedia article estimates 3 million native speakers, that is presumably, speakers who have acquired the language from their parents, plus a further 7 million who understand Low German. These figures are for Europe. The Low German-speaking communities outside Europe are very small.
Approximately 274 million people speak French fluently worldwide.
Approximately 1.5 billion people worldwide do not speak English at all.
There are approximately 76 million native Vietnamese speakers worldwide. Additionally, there are millions of other people who speak Vietnamese as a second language.
German is the main language of about 90-95 million people in Europe.
It is estimated that around 3 million Turkish people speak German. German is the second most spoken language among the Turkish population in Germany.
Approximately 45 million people speak Kannada worldwide, predominantly in the Indian state of Karnataka.
There are approximately 81 million people living in Germany. The German government states that 99% of its people speak German as a first language.
German is spoken by about 100 million people as a first language around the world and by about 80 million as a second language.
120 million people in Europe
Spanish is spoken as a first language by about 330 million people and as a second language by perhaps another 50 million. Adios!