The table shows information about the six languages with the most native speakers, as well as the number of people who speak them as an additional language and the total number of speakers.
Overall, Mandarin Chinese had the most native speakers and the most speakers in total. English was different from the other languages, because it had more additional speakers than native speakers.
Mandarin Chinese had 900 million native speakers, which was much more than any other language. It also had 190 million additional speakers, so its total was 1,090 million. Hindi was second with 370 million native speakers and 490 million speakers in total. Spanish had 350 million native speakers and 420 million in total.
English had 339 million native speakers, but 603 million people spoke it as an additional language, which was the highest number in this column. Therefore, its total number was 942 million, the second highest. Arabic and Portuguese had the fewest speakers, with about 206 and 203 million native speakers, and only 24 and 10 million additional speakers.
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