Most Spoken Languages in the World

The video shows the history and projection of the total number of speakers of the top 15 languages from 1900 to 2100.
If a person who speaks both English and French is counted in both of these categories;

Source: Ethnologue

[thiagohenrique]

India alone already has more than 1 billion people, and China also has more than a billion. Naturally, this calculation is wrong.

[themeerkat]

props to the guy for time traveling to 2100 and going back just so he could make this video for us ❤❤❤

[ebridgewater]

I presume this is not only first language? A video for first languages only would be interesting. I imagine Mandarin would be top today?

[DataPrism]

This animated chart is incredibly intuitive and engaging; I can easily follow the data trends!

[denniskai]

A little explanation would be great - for the projected status 2025 and beyond

[leskfan]

I sincerely doubt that in 1902 everyone in China spoke Mandarin since "Mandarin" was just the language spoken by the people of Beijing (and not spoken by all of China) at that time.

[supermarno]

You forget.. javanesse leaguage spoken by more than 120 millions peoples in south east asia

[Death-Note-Lord-]

I am from the Middle East and this world is strange. They started learning Arabic in the fifties and sixties for the sake of money. Salaries in Middle Eastern countries at that time and until now are the highest in the world. At that time, salaries in Kuwait alone were five times the salaries in America, and they did not care about them before that for the sake of culture and history.

[mxshani]

Isn't Urdu and Hindu spoken as same? Like British English and american English?

[ibmrpg]

It's impressive how Japanese had so much staying power until now despite only being official in one country.

[Quizwala]

How to collect data for this video????

[OtoduzShark]

Wait why are they showing future reference s, they may not be accurate when the prominent time comes

[Man_of_Renaissance]

Arabic should be represented by the Flag of Arab League of Nations which comprises of 22 member countries, or flag of Arab Syria as Syria houses the Arabic language council, not Saudi Arabia.

[kittykat]

Влажные мечты того кто создал это видео 😂

[Jatzystudio]

Its amazing how the UK 🇬🇧 being such a small country and population has dominate and given so many great things to the world...no biased views here.😂

[barawen_who]

At least I won't be alive when French surpases Spanish (?

[samanhameed]

There are just 3 countries in the whole world speaking english how come english is the most spoken language in the world

[ibrahimshehata]

The arabic speakers are over 400 millions. Something is wrong with this statistic

[Александр_Русский]

Расчёт явно не учитывает возрастающее влияние России на глобальном Юге, а так же упадок Запада.

[damocles]

The English of the future will be heavily influenced by American English. It will probably be the primary dialect.