It would be most unusual for a German not to be able to speak German. I therefore answer 99.99% of Germans speak German. The reasoning :- there is a very small percentage of people who have speech impediments that rends it impossible for them to speak at all.
German is the main language of about 90-95 million people in Europe.
According to the 2000 U.S. Census 0.41% of Americans speak only German at home.
120 million people in Europe
13% of EU citizens speak English as their native language.
The percentage of native Austrians who speak German (Deutsch) is 100. Deutsch is the national language of Austria, albeit a dialect different than regions of Germany and the portion of Swizerland where it also spoken.
Knobody knows the EXACT number/percentage of people who speak German. The number changes every minute! The numbers of people change so the number of people speaking German change too! If a person who speaks German passes away, then there is one LESS person speaking German. If someone learns German, then there is one MORE person speaking German!So there it is, there is NOT an exact number of people who speak German!From Aunt Sidney! x
Approximately 1.1% of the world's population speaks German as their first language.
Since there are about 100 million people speaking German as first language, it is about 1.5 % of the world's population. Including the people speaking German as second language make it double.
French and German are both official languages in Switzerland (along with Italian), Belgium (along with Dutch) and Luxembourg (along with Luxembourgish). But in most countries in Western Europe, or the world for that matter, there are people who speak French and people who speak German (either in a large population or small).
The most widely spoken languages in Europe include English, German, French, Russian, and Italian.
English is commonly spoken in Europe, but many countries also speak their own languages, such as French, German, Spanish, and Italian.