Languages in the world

Native speakers

1- Mandarin – 918 millions.

2- Spanish – 481 millions.

3- English – 480 millions.

4- Hindi – 341 millions.

5- Bengali – 241 millions [161 millions in Bangladesh + 78 millions in West Bengal + 2 millions in Tripura].

6- Portuguese – 225 millions [210 millions in Brazil + 10 millions in Portugal + 5 millions in Angola]. *

7- Russian – 154 millions.

Source: based on Ethnologue x Nationalencyklopedin

Corrections in Ethnologue list:

* Portuguese is above 225 millions: Brazil + Portugal + Angola + 6 other countries where Portuguese is official + several regions in the globe where Portuguese is the native language of the immigrants.

German – at least 90 millions [82 millions in Germany + 8 millions in Austria + other countries]

Korean – 75 millions [50 millions in S. Korea + 25 millions in N. Korea]

Standard arabic - it is not a native language, but as a second language [L2] it is the 5th most widely spoken.

 

Published books by year

1- China (440,000 books)

2- USA (304,912 books)

3- United Kingdom (184,000 books)

4- Japan (139,078 books)

5- Russia (101,981 books)

6- Germany (93,600 books)

7- India (90,000 books)

8- France (77,986 books)

9- Iran (72,871 books)

10- Italy (61,966 books)

Source: Unesco

 

In internet [estimated]

English

Russian

Spanish

French

German

Japanese

Portuguese

Source: based on W3Techs