Which languages are spoken most in the world?

English is the most spoken language with an estimate of 1.132 billion speakers irrespective of the point whether it is their mother tongue or not. It is followed by Mandarin (1.117 billion), Hindi (651 million), Spanish (534 million), French (280 million), Arabic (274 million), Bengali (265 million), Russian (258 million), Portuguese (234 million) and Indonesian (199 million).

When the population of native speakers is considered, Mandarin comes first with 918 million speakers. It is followed by Spanish (480  million), English (379 million), Hindi (341 million), Bengali (228 million), Portuguese (221 million), Russian (154 million), Japanese (128 million), Western Punjabi (92.7 million), and Marathi (83.1 million).