20 most spoken languages in the world (2025)
1. English: 1.5bn
2. Mandarin Chinese: 1.2bn
3. Hindi: 609.1m
4. Spanish: 558.5m
5. Standard Arabic: 334.8m
6. French: 311.9m
7. Bengali: 284.3m
8. Portuguese: 266.6m
9. Russian: 253.4m
10. Indonesian: 252.4m
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20 most spoken languages in the world (2025)
1. English: 1.5bn
2. Mandarin Chinese: 1.2bn
3. Hindi: 609.1m
4. Spanish: 558.5m
5. Standard Arabic: 334.8m
6. French: 311.9m
7. Bengali: 284.3m
8. Portuguese: 266.6m
9. Russian: 253.4m
10. Indonesian: 252.4m
11. Urdu: 246.0m
12. Standard German: 134.0m
13. Japanese: 125.6m
14. Nigerian pidgin: 120.7m
15. Egyptian Arabic: 118.6m
16. Marathi: 99.3m
17. Vietnamese: 97.0m
18. Telugu: 95.8m
19. Hausa: 94.4m
20. Turkish: 91.3m
*This list ranks individual languages, not macrolanguages (groupings of related but distinct language varieties)