Gesamtzahl der Menschen, die Spanisch sprechen können, nach Land [OC]
Von Fluid-Decision6262
Gesamtzahl der Menschen, die Spanisch sprechen können, nach Land [OC]
Von Fluid-Decision6262
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language#Geographical_distribution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language#Geographical_distribution)
Spanish is the 4th most spoken language in the world in terms of total speakers with 636 million speakers, and 2nd in terms of native speakers with 519 million.
**The countries with the most Spanish speakers are:**
1. Mexico (132 million)
2. USA (65 million)
3. Colombia (53 million)
4. Spain (49 million)
5. Argentina (47 million)
6. Peru (31 million)
7. Venezuela (28 million)
8. Chile (20 million)
9. Ecuador (18 million)
10. Guatemala (16 million)
**Among countries where Spanish is not an official language:**
1. USA (65 million)
2. France (7.8 million)
3. Brazil (7.4 million)
4. Germany (5.7 million)
5. United Kingdom (3.1 million)
6. Italy (3 million)
7. Canada (1.8 million)
8. Morocco (1.7 million)
9. Netherlands (1.3 million)
10. Portugal (1.1 million)
> Total Number of People Who Can Speak Spanish by Country
as always, **CITATION NEEDED**
I know for a fact there are people that speak Spanish in Australia (and maybe Philippines) but it’s not in your map.
It is a bad idea to equate <1 million as the same as no/negligible amount of spanish speakers.
Given the arbitrary nature of a cutoff at 1 million, Belgium is excluded even though 1 in 10 speak it, which I think is more significant than say the UK which is 1 in 17
The Spanish did pretty well at spreading their base culture. The british also did pretty good with partial credit to the Americans but not as well as Spain.
Am I wrong here? I can’t think of another culture that has done so well since the Roman’s.
Would be much more interesting if expressed as percentage of total population. By mapping the total number of people, you are effectively colouring nations with a larger population in darker shades than smaller countries just due to their size difference, not due to a difference in the ability of that nation to speak Spanish.
You need population % not number of people
I’m an idiot and my first thought for a good two seconds was that Alaska alone has over 50 million spanish speakers.
I am surprised that, after 3 centuries of colonization, today only about 600,000 Filipinos speak Spainish. That’s less than 1%.
In 1898 that was 5-10%.
highly doubt that 1.1 million portuguese people know how to speak spanish.
The fact that it’s not a percent of the population skews this too much to be useful in any meaningful way, or even glean much useful info from.
Population map of the Western Hemisphere plus Spain.
Would be more useful to see % of speakers vs total numbers. This is misleading to show the US more than Spain. Population differences make that inevitable so this doesn’t really show the penetration of Sopanish language. In Spain, I suspect it is greater than 90% while the US would be much lower. Can OP repost with a different view? (Unless of course the total number was the whole point which IMO doesn’t mean much.)
Edit- originally said greater than 100% in Spain which of course is impossible.
If this map were from 1998 the Philippines would be the second lightest shade.