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   Is English the world's most spoken language?

   • English was born in the United Kingdom but today belongs to the modern world as the main international language of business and politics. That’s why it’s not very surprising to find English as the world’s most spoken language, with 1.5 billion speakers as of 2023.

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   How many English speakers are there in the world?

   • Of the billion-strong English speakers in the world, only 33% consider it their native language. The popularity of a language depends greatly on utility and geographic location. Additionally, how we measure the spread of world languages can vary greatly depending on whether you look at total speakers or native speakers.

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   Which language has the most speakers?

   • Let’s now dive into the top 10 most spoken languages overall. Which Languages Have the Most Speakers? It comes as no surprise that English reigns supreme, with over 1.1 billion total speakers—or roughly 15% of the global population. Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, and French round out the top five.

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   Which country has the most English speakers?

   • The United States and India have the most total English speakers, with 306 million and 265 million, respectively. These are followed by Pakistan (104 million), the United Kingdom (68 million), and Nigeria (60 million). As of 2022, there were about 400 million native speakers of English.

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   May 24, 2024 · In 2023, there were around 1.5 billion people worldwide who spoke English either natively or as a second language, slightly more than the 1.1 billion Mandarin Chinese speakers at the time of...

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   The World Factbook, produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), estimates the ten most spoken languages ( L1 + L2) in 2022 as follows: [46]

   Language	Family	Branch	First-language (l1) Speakers
   English (excl. creole languages )	Indo-European	Germanic	380 million
   Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, ...	Sino-Tibetan	Sinitic	939 million
   Hindi (excl. Urdu )	Indo-European	Indo-Aryan	345 million
   Spanish (excl. creole languages )	Indo-European	Romance	485 million

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   The United States and India have the most total English speakers, with 306 million and 265 million, respectively. These are followed by Pakistan (104 million), the United Kingdom (68 million), and Nigeria (60 million). [4] As of 2022, there were about 400 million native speakers of English. [5]

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   Feb 15, 2020 · It comes as no surprise that English reigns supreme, with over 1.1 billion total speakers—or roughly 15% of the global population. Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, and French round out the top five.

7. www.weforum.org › agenda › 2018Chart of the day: These are the world’s most spoken languages

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   Feb 22, 2018 · Feb 22, 2018. Chinese, Spanish and English are estimated to be the three most spoken languages in the world. Image: REUTERS/Mike Segar. La langue, Sprache, 語言. However you say it, we all speak at least one.

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   Below is a list of the 25 languages with the highest number of total speakers, according to data from the Ethnologue language catalog in the early 2020s. For a list of languages that counts only the number of native speakers, see languages by number of native speakers. English (1,456,448,320)

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   Feb 29, 2024 · The 12 Most Spoken Languages on Earth. English was born in the United Kingdom but today belongs to the modern world as the main international language of business and politics. That’s why it’s not very surprising to find English as the world’s most spoken language, with 1.5 billion speakers as of 2023. Rank. Language.