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• Almost 470 million people have Spanish as their mother tongue and if that count includes speakers of native domain, those with limited competence and students of Spanish as a foreign language, the figure exceeds 548 million.

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• Spanish is the second mother tongue in the world by number of speakers, after Mandarin Chinese, and also the second language in a global counting of speakers (native domain + limited competence + Spanish students).

 

 

• Almost 20 million students study Spanish as a foreign language.

 

• The Hispanic population of the United States is currently around 52 million people. More than half of the population growth in the United States between 2000 and 2010 was due to the increase in the Hispanic community.

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• In 2050 the United States will be the first Spanish-speaking country in the world.

 

* Data collected from the 2014 report carried out by El Instituto Cervantes: El Español: Una Lengua viva.

 

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