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Non-hispanic countries with the largest number of Spanish speakers worldwide in 2025, by competence (in 1,000s)

Characteristic	Native Domain Group	Limited Proficiency Group
United States**	45,481.56	20,000
European Union	11,433.89	34,301.67
United Kingdom	217.97	5,564.11
Brazil	1,111.5	1,931.48
Morocco	136.89	1,751.73
Canada	321.41	1,043.89
Australia	185.21	386.57
Switzerland	213.78	351.26
Philippines***	6.83	547.7
Israel	79.83	360.15

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2025

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Worldwide

Survey time period

2025*

Supplementary notes

Figures have been rounded.
* The date of data collection varies among the countries surveyed. The date of the survey shown is the year of publication.

**NDG includes Hispanic people who speak Spanish at home, as well as non-Hispanic Americans who claim to speak Spanish in the domestic sphere. Those below the age of 5 are not included. LPG includes those Hispanics excluded from the native group who, nevertheless, are assumed to have limited proficiency and are former students of Spanish. Non-authorized migrants from Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean are not included.

***The LPG includes speakers of chabacano

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The United States is the non-Hispanic country with the largest number of native Spanish speakers in the world, with approximately 45.48 million people with a native command of the language in 2025. However, the European Union had the largest group of non-native speakers with limited proficiency in Spanish, at around 34 million people. Furthermore, Mexico is the country with the largest number of native Spanish speakers in the world as of 2025.