There are approximately 500 million Spanish speaking people in the world. That makes it the third behind Mandarin Chinese and English in total number of speakers worldwide.
Mexico.
If you are talking about native speakers, English and Spanish are about tied. If you are talking about total speakers, then English has the most.
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By number of total speakers, not native speakers: Mandarin Chinese English Hindi/Urdu Spanish Russian Arabic Portuguese German Bengali French
The language with the greatest number of native speakers in the world is Mandarin Chinese.
Mexico.
There is about 42.300.000 spanish speakers in Colombia
If you are talking about native speakers, English and Spanish are about tied. If you are talking about total speakers, then English has the most.
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If you are talking about native speakers, Spanish is tied with English as the number 2 language of the world. If you add all the people who speak spanish as a second language, then it is number 3. (Mandarin is 1 and English is 2).
By number of total speakers, not native speakers: Mandarin Chinese English Hindi/Urdu Spanish Russian Arabic Portuguese German Bengali French
The language with the greatest number of native speakers in the world is Mandarin Chinese.
North and South America both have the highest population of Spanish speakers in the world. There are over 103 million native Spanish speakers in Mexico alone and over 35 million in the United States.
As of 2011 it is estimated that there are more than 400 million native speakers, and more than 500 million total speakers of Spanish.
According to recent research conducted by SpanishSEO.org, the estimated worldwide Spanish Speaking population is 452,480,979 inhabitants representing 6.78 % of the global population. If there are 6 billion people in the world and approximately 380 million of them are Spanish speakers, then the percentage of Spanish speakers in the world is 6.3%
1. Chinese (845,000,000 speakers) 2. Spanish (350,000,000 speakers) 3. English (345,000,000 speakers)
By population the top five world languages are: Chinese (mandarin), Hindi/Urdu, English, Spanish and Arabic in that order. By total speakers the top five languages in the world, in order are 1. English (approx. 2 billion speakers.) 2. Mandarin (approx. 800million speakers) 3. Spanish (approx. 550million speakers) 4. Hindi (approx. 500million speakers) 5. Russian (approx. 400million speakers)