The following rankings of the world’s top 50 most spoken languages are compiled by Ethnologue, which provides a comprehensive database on the distribution and use of the world’s languages, and the United States Central Intelligence Agency, which provides information on the demographics and language use of each country. The CIA World Factbook, Statista, which provides databases such as various statistical data, UNESCO, an educational, scientific, and cultural organization under the United Nations that publishes various reports related to world languages, and several We consulted Wikipedia, which provides information on the number of speakers of a language and where it is spoken.
Information on major countries and regions of use was classified based on SimilarWeb’s Top 50 Websites, which provides various information about websites, and Google AdSense Profit Calculator data.
List of Top 50 most spoken languages in the world