Official languages of the world’s countries
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Official language | Number of countries |
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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 |