World’s most powerful languages
Out of the world’s approximately 7.5 billion inhabitants, 1.5 billion speak English — that’s 20% of the Earth’s population.
However, most of those people aren’t native English speakers. About 360 million people speak English as their first language.
The top six languages here are also the six official languages of the UN
English
French
Mandarin
Spanish
Russian
Arabic
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German
Japanese
Portuguese
Hindi
Source: INSEAD
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