Language · Indo-European
Spanish
español – its own name
Official or co-official in 21 countries. Listed in 36 countries.
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 512 million
- sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Script
- Latin
Where it is spoken
- Official 15
- Co-official 6
- Widely used 8
- Minority 7
Official
- Mexico 83% 109 million (de facto)
- Argentina 100% 47 million
- Spain 99% 47 million
- Colombia 93% 46 million
- Venezuela 82% 26 million
- Chile 98% 18 million
- Guatemala 88% 16 million
- Cuba 100% 11 million
- Honduras 91% 8.7 million
- Dominican Republic 78% 8.4 million
- El Salvador 89% 5.9 million
- Nicaragua 78% 5.2 million
- Costa Rica 95% 5.0 million
- Panama 69% 3.1 million
- Uruguay 88% 3.0 million
Co-official
- Peru 73% 24 million
- Ecuador 96% 18 million
- Bolivia 61% 7.5 million
- Paraguay 67% 5.0 million
- Puerto Rico 87% 2.6 million
- Equatorial Guinea 87% 1.6 million
Widely used
- Philippines 31% 37 million
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United States
9.6%
33 million
The most common language after English; official in Puerto Rico (shown separately).
- France 13% 8.9 million
- Romania 10% 1.8 million
- Portugal 10% 1.0 million
- Belize 55% 229 thousand
- Andorra 43% 37 thousand
- Sint Maarten 11% 5.1 thousand
Minority
- United Kingdom 8% 5.5 million
- Germany 6% 5.0 million
- Canada 3.2% 1.2 million
- Brazil <0.1% 79 thousand
- Morocco <0.1% 24 thousand
- Curaçao 3.7% 5.7 thousand
- Trinidad & Tobago 0.3% 4.1 thousand