The ministry reports
December 2015
SPANISH AROUND
THE WORLD
Cervantes Institute
76
Cervantes
Institutes around
the world
36
6
Europe
North
America
4
Middle
East
10
Asia and
Oceania
12
8
Africa
South
America
559
2º
million people in the world
speak Spanish
most spoken language
by native speakers
Ranking of Spanish language
Languages with greatest presence
in United Nations system
Most studied foreign languages
in the world
English
French
French
Spanish
Most used languages on the Internet
Spanish
Most used languages on Facebook
English
Chinese
English
English
Spanish
Spanish
Portuguese
Projection of Spanish language
1,044,855
tourists visited
Spain in 2014 to
study
In 2030,
7.5% of the world’s
population will
speak Spanish
By 2050,
United States will
be the leading
Spanish-speaking
country in the
world
The number of
people registered
with the Cervantes
Institute
increased 13-fold
between 1993 and
2014
Spanish students around the world
7.820.000
United States
2.208.249
Other countries
21.252.789
106
341.073
Spanish students in
Ivory Coast
412.515
Benin
countries
519.660
6.120.000
Brazil
United Kingdom
554.423
Germany
687.152
Italy
2.589.717
France
Source: Cervantes Institute, “Spanish: a living language”. 2015 Report
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