Official languages of the world’s countries
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| Official language | Number of countries |
|---|---|
| English | 56 |
| French | 29 |
| Arabic | 24 |
| Spanish | 20 |
| Portuguese | 8 |
| German | 6 |
| Italian | 4 |
| Russian | 4 |
| Dutch | 3 |
| Malay | 3 |
| Serbian | 3 |
| Albanian | 2 |
| Aymara | 2 |
| Chinese | 2 |
| Croatian | 2 |
| Greek | 2 |
| Korean | 2 |
| Quechua | 2 |
| Swahili | 2 |
| Swedish | 2 |
| Tamil | 2 |
| Turkish | 2 |
| Afrikaans | 1 |
| Amharic | 1 |
| Armenian | 1 |
| Azerbaijani | 1 |
| Belarusian | 1 |
| Bengali | 1 |
| Bislama | 1 |
| Bosnian | 1 |
| Bulgarian | 1 |
| Burmese | 1 |
| Catalan | 1 |
| Chichewa | 1 |
| Creole | 1 |
| Czech | 1 |
| Danish | 1 |
| Dari | 1 |
| Dhivehi | 1 |
| Dzongkha | 1 |
| Estonian | 1 |
| Filipino | 1 |
| Finnish | 1 |
| Georgian | 1 |
| Guaran? | 1 |
| Hebrew | 1 |
| Hindi | 1 |
| Hungarian | 1 |
| Icelandic | 1 |
| Indonesian | 1 |
| Irish | 1 |
| Japanese | 1 |
| Kazakh | 1 |
| Khmer | 1 |
| Kinyarwanda | 1 |
| Kirghiz | 1 |
| Kirundi | 1 |
| Kurdish | 1 |
| Lao | 1 |
| Latin | 1 |
| Latvian | 1 |
| Lithuanian | 1 |
| Luxembourgish | 1 |
| Macedonian | 1 |
| Malagasy | 1 |
| Maltese | 1 |
| Moldovan | 1 |
| Mongolian | 1 |
| Nauruan | 1 |
| Nepali | 1 |
| Norwegian | 1 |
| Pashto | 1 |
| Persian | 1 |
| Polish | 1 |
| Romanian | 1 |
| Romansh | 1 |
| Samoan | 1 |
| Sinhala | 1 |
| Slovak | 1 |
| Slovene | 1 |
| Somali | 1 |
| Sotho | 1 |
| Swazi | 1 |
| Tajik | 1 |
| Tetum | 1 |
| Thai | 1 |
| Tigrinya | 1 |
| Tongan | 1 |
| Tswana | 1 |
| Turkmen | 1 |
| Ukrainian | 1 |
| Urdu | 1 |
| Uzbek | 1 |
| Vietnamese | 1 |
Official languages sorted by population of the countries where these languages are official. These data do not match the number of speaking the language — for example, English in an official language in India, but it is used mainly by the government bodies, but not by the population.
| Place | Official language | Number of people |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | 2518344000 |
| 2 | Chinese | 1344527000 |
| 3 | Hindi | 1187550000 |
| 4 | Spanish | 414326000 |
| 5 | French | 387205000 |
| 6 | Arabic | 365973000 |
| 7 | Portuguese | 249999000 |
| 8 | Indonesian | 237556000 |
| 9 | Russian | 173142000 |
| 10 | Urdu | 170532000 |
| 11 | Bengali | 164425000 |
| 12 | Japanese | 127390000 |
| 13 | German | 109323900 |
| 14 | Filipino | 94013000 |
| 15 | Vietnamese | 85847000 |
| 16 | Swahili | 84689000 |
| 17 | Amharic | 84390000 |
| 18 | Persian | 75078000 |
| 19 | Korean | 73764000 |
| 20 | Turkish | 73363000 |
| 21 | Italian | 68217600 |
| 22 | Thai | 67470000 |
| 23 | Burmese | 50496000 |
| 24 | Afrikaans | 49991000 |
| 25 | Ukrainian | 45872000 |
| 26 | Aymara | 39493000 |
| 27 | Quechua | 39493000 |
| 28 | Polish | 38167000 |
| 29 | Malay | 34384000 |
| 30 | Kurdish | 31467000 |
| 31 | Nepali | 29853000 |
| 32 | Dari | 29117000 |
| 33 | Pashto | 29117000 |
| 34 | Dutch | 27965000 |
| 35 | Uzbek | 27794000 |
| 36 | Tamil | 25487000 |
| 37 | Romanian | 21466000 |
| 38 | Sinhala | 20410000 |
| 39 | Malagasy | 20146000 |
| 40 | Kazakh | 16197000 |
| 41 | Chichewa | 15692000 |
| 42 | Swedish | 14748000 |
| 43 | Serbian | 14242000 |
| 44 | Khmer | 13396000 |
| 45 | Greek | 12108000 |
| 46 | Czech | 10512000 |
| 47 | Kinyarwanda | 10277000 |
| 48 | Hungarian | 10014000 |
| 49 | Belarusian | 9468000 |
| 50 | Somali | 9359000 |
| 51 | Azerbaijani | 8997400 |
| 52 | Kirundi | 8519000 |
| 53 | Croatian | 8193000 |
| 54 | Romansh | 7783000 |
| 55 | Hebrew | 7628000 |
| 56 | Bulgarian | 7577000 |
| 57 | Tajik | 7075000 |
| 58 | Guaran? | 6460000 |
| 59 | Lao | 6436000 |
| 60 | Kirghiz | 5550000 |
| 61 | Danish | 5544000 |
| 62 | Slovak | 5430000 |
| 63 | Finnish | 5368000 |
| 64 | Tigrinya | 5224000 |
| 65 | Turkmen | 5177000 |
| 66 | Norwegian | 4902000 |
| 67 | Irish | 4515000 |
| 68 | Georgian | 4436000 |
| 69 | Albanian | 3821000 |
| 70 | Bosnian | 3760000 |
| 71 | Moldovan | 3564000 |
| 72 | Lithuanian | 3329000 |
| 73 | Armenian | 3238000 |
| 74 | Mongolian | 2773000 |
| 75 | Latvian | 2237000 |
| 76 | Sotho | 2084000 |
| 77 | Slovene | 2064000 |
| 78 | Macedonian | 2055000 |
| 79 | Tswana | 1978000 |
| 80 | Estonian | 1340000 |
| 81 | Swazi | 1202000 |
| 82 | Tetum | 1171000 |
| 83 | Dzongkha | 708000 |
| 84 | Luxembourgish | 503000 |
| 85 | Maltese | 416000 |
| 86 | Icelandic | 318000 |
| 87 | Dhivehi | 314000 |
| 88 | Bislama | 246000 |
| 89 | Samoan | 179000 |
| 90 | Tongan | 104000 |
| 91 | Creole | 85000 |
| 92 | Catalan | 84080 |
| 93 | Nauruan | 14000 |
| 94 | Latin | 800 |