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Spanish is Spoken by 577 Million People Worldwide, With the Number of Its Native Speakers Exceeding That of English

Already, 577,246,327 people are speaking Spanish around the world, according to Instituto Cervantes, which will launch a new edition of its world spanish-language almanac in October. That's more than 5 million more than the number reported in November 2017 (up 0.87 percent).

Richard Bueno Hudson, the academic director of the instituto Cervantes, said the rise of Spanish speakers was largely due to population growth.

David Fernandez Vitores, professor of Spanish language and literature at the university of alcara, emphasized in his speech that according to 2016 data, if we walk on the streets of the United States, we can find that 17.8% of people speak Spanish, and 70% of American families have the habit of speaking Spanish, which has been passed down from generation to generation. There are currently more than 40 million Spanish speakers in the United States, but within 10 years it will likely surpass the native Spanish population.

Spanish-speaking parts of the United States are concentrated in the southwest: Arizona, Texas, Florida, and California.


Spanish is the official language of 21 countries in the world. Among the 480 million native speakers of Spanish, there are 434,875,921 people living in the spanish-speaking world and 45,353,721 foreigners.
Mr Bueno Hudson argues that the British authorities are taking the non-growth of native English speakers very seriously, but Spain does not currently have such concerns. The number of native speakers in Spain is now second only to that of Chinese, which was 960 million in 2017. According to the data in 2018, the number of native speakers in English is only 399 million. In addition, 21 million students worldwide are studying Spanish, two-thirds of them in the United States and Brazil. Despite this, Spanish is not a global language in many ways. As Mr Bueno Hudson points out, spanish-speaking countries are geographically compact, with many spanish-speaking countries located close to each other. The French President said Spanish was less common in academic journals such as sci-tech journals.

In response, David Fernandez Vitores searched 100 journals in all academic fields through Google academic and found that English was the most frequently used language, followed by Chinese, Portuguese, Russian and German, while Spanish ranked sixth. Another warning is that spanish-speaking countries account for just 6.9% of global GDP, far behind China (18.2%) and even further behind english-speaking countries (55%).

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