PopAtlas

839

Languages

199

Countries covered

120

Official languages

Language coverage

Distribution of languages by number of speakers

Coverage by country

Mandarin Chinese

≈ 1.1 bn

English

≈ 739.2 m

Spanish

≈ 475.5 m

Hindi

≈ 438.5 m

Arabic

≈ 391.1 m

Indonesian

≈ 268.1 m

Portuguese

≈ 260.5 m

French

≈ 220.2 m

Bengali

≈ 213 m

Russian

≈ 167.4 m

Japanese

≈ 126 m

Swahili (macrolanguage)

≈ 112.5 m

Panjabi

≈ 108.5 m

Filipino

≈ 100 m

German

≈ 95.6 m

Vietnamese

≈ 91 m

Hausa

≈ 85.5 m

Javanese

≈ 84 m

Urdu

≈ 83.6 m

Marathi

≈ 83 m

Wu Chinese

≈ 80 m

Turkish

≈ 79.2 m

Persian

≈ 77.1 m

Korean

≈ 76.3 m

Thai

≈ 63.5 m

Italian

≈ 60.9 m

Yoruba

≈ 41.5 m

Ukrainian

≈ 39.1 m

Polish

≈ 38.7 m

Oromo

≈ 35 m

Uzbek

≈ 34.6 m

Burmese

≈ 32 m

Malay (macrolanguage)

≈ 25.7 m

Kurdish

≈ 25 m

Malagasy

≈ 25 m

Sindhi

≈ 25 m

Dutch

≈ 23 m

Romanian

≈ 21.3 m

Amharic

≈ 21 m

Cebuano

≈ 20 m

Azerbaijani

≈ 19.5 m

Nepali (macrolanguage)

≈ 16.9 m

Lingala

≈ 16 m

Pushto

≈ 16 m

Sinhala

≈ 16 m

Khmer

≈ 15 m

Chichewa

≈ 13 m

Zulu

≈ 12.1 m

Hungarian

≈ 11.9 m

Kinyarwanda

≈ 11.6 m

The chart below shows the number of speakers for the most widely spoken languages worldwide.

Coverage by country

Mandarin Chinese

≈ 1.1 bn

English

≈ 739.2 m

Spanish

≈ 475.5 m

Hindi

≈ 438.5 m

Arabic

≈ 391.1 m

Indonesian

≈ 268.1 m

Portuguese

≈ 260.5 m

French

≈ 220.2 m

Bengali

≈ 213 m

Russian

≈ 167.4 m

Japanese

≈ 126 m

Swahili (macrolanguage)

≈ 112.5 m

Panjabi

≈ 108.5 m

Filipino

≈ 100 m

German

≈ 95.6 m

Vietnamese

≈ 91 m

Hausa

≈ 85.5 m

Javanese

≈ 84 m

Urdu

≈ 83.6 m

Marathi

≈ 83 m

Wu Chinese

≈ 80 m

Turkish

≈ 79.2 m

Persian

≈ 77.1 m

Korean

≈ 76.3 m

Thai

≈ 63.5 m

Italian

≈ 60.9 m

Yoruba

≈ 41.5 m

Ukrainian

≈ 39.1 m

Polish

≈ 38.7 m

Oromo

≈ 35 m

Uzbek

≈ 34.6 m

Burmese

≈ 32 m

Malay (macrolanguage)

≈ 25.7 m

Kurdish

≈ 25 m

Malagasy

≈ 25 m

Sindhi

≈ 25 m

Dutch

≈ 23 m

Romanian

≈ 21.3 m

Amharic

≈ 21 m

Cebuano

≈ 20 m

Azerbaijani

≈ 19.5 m

Nepali (macrolanguage)

≈ 16.9 m

Lingala

≈ 16 m

Pushto

≈ 16 m

Sinhala

≈ 16 m

Khmer

≈ 15 m

Chichewa

≈ 13 m

Zulu

≈ 12.1 m

Hungarian

≈ 11.9 m

Kinyarwanda

≈ 11.6 m

Note: The total number of speakers shown here is lower than the current world population. This overview includes major languages with available and comparable estimates and does not account for multilingual speakers or smaller languages. The data is intended to illustrate relative scale and global distribution rather than a complete population count.