Top 5 Most Spoken Languages in the World 2024

2. Mandarin Chinese

Number of Total Speakers: 1.1 billion 

Mandarin Chinese is one of the most commonly spoken forms of Chinese. It is spoken by over two-thirds of the Chinese population as a native language. The language is divided into 4 main subgroups: Northern, Northwestern, Southwestern, and Southern. More than 1.1 billion speakers around the world speak it.