Languages by country

Each country's first language, how many languages are official, and how evenly they share the territory.

Data as of 28 Oct 2026 · 254 countries · CLDR 49, Glottolog 5.3, States sheet

How many languages share each country

Effective number of languages: one over the sum of squared shares.

How this is measured

CLDR shares overlap, so read it as a floor.

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Albania

Albanian · 1 official

100%

1.00 eff.

Antarctica

und · 0 official

100%

1.00 eff.

Argentina

Spanish · 1 official

100%

1.00 eff.

Bahamas

English · 1 official

100%

1.00 eff.

Barbados

English · 1 official

100%

1.00 eff.

Bouvet Island

Norwegian · 0 official

100%

1.00 eff.

British Indian Ocean Territory

English · 1 official

100%

1.00 eff.

Bulgaria

Bulgarian · 1 official

100%

1.00 eff.

Clipperton Island

und · 0 official

100%

1.00 eff.

Cook Islands

English · 1 official

100%

1.00 eff.

Cuba

Spanish · 1 official

100%

1.00 eff.

French Southern Territories

French · 0 official

100%

1.00 eff.

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1	Albania	Albanian	100%	1	0	1.00	0.00	12
2	Antarctica	und	100%	0	0	1.00	0.00	0
3	Argentina	Spanish	100%	1	0	1.00	0.00	24
4	Bahamas	English	100%	1	0	1.00	0.00	17
5	Barbados	English	100%	1	0	1.00	0.00	21
6	Bouvet Island	Norwegian	100%	0	0	1.00	0.00	0
7	British Indian Ocean Territory	English	100%	1	0	1.00	0.00	0
8	Bulgaria	Bulgarian	100%	1	0	1.00	0.00	28
9	Clipperton Island	und	100%	0	0	1.00	0.00	0
10	Cook Islands	English	100%	1	0	1.00	0.00	14
11	Cuba	Spanish	100%	1	0	1.00	0.00	16
12	French Southern Territories	French	100%	0	0	1.00	0.00	0
13	Guernsey	English	100%	1	0	1.00	0.00	4
14	Guinea-Bissau	Portuguese	100%	1	0	1.00	0.00	9
15	Guyana	English	100%	1	0	1.00	0.00	10
16	Heard & McDonald Islands	und	100%	0	0	1.00	0.00	0
17	Hungary	Hungarian	100%	1	0	1.00	0.00	20
18	Iceland	Icelandic	100%	1	0	1.00	0.00	8
19	Isle of Man	English	100%	2	0	1.00	0.00	6
20	Israel	Modern Hebrew	100%	2	0	1.00	0.00	7
21	Jordan	Standard Arabic	100%	1	0	1.00	0.00	3
22	Kiribati	English	100%	2	0	1.00	0.00	2
23	Kuwait	Standard Arabic	100%	1	0	1.00	0.00	6
24	Lebanon	Levantine Arabic	100%	1	0	1.00	0.00	8
25	Liechtenstein	German	100%	2	0	1.00	0.00	2
26	Malta	Maltese	100%	2	0	1.00	0.00	6
27	Montenegro	Serbian Standard	100%	1	0	1.00	0.00	3
28	Netherlands	Dutch	100%	1	1	1.00	0.00	12
29	Norway	Norwegian	100%	1	1	1.00	0.00	12
30	Palestine	Standard Arabic	100%	1	0	1.00	0.00	2
31	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	French	100%	1	0	1.00	0.00	2
32	Samoa	Samoan	100%	2	0	1.00	0.00	51
33	Saudi Arabia	Standard Arabic	100%	1	0	1.00	0.00	13
34	Solomon Islands	English	100%	1	0	1.00	0.00	10
35	South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands	English	100%	1	0	1.00	0.00	0
36	South Korea	Korean	100%	1	0	1.00	0.00	17
37	Tajikistan	Tajik	100%	1	0	1.00	0.00	5
38	U.S. Outlying Islands	English	100%	1	0	1.00	0.00	0
39	Western Sahara	Standard Arabic	100%	1	0	1.00	0.00	6
40	American Samoa	Samoan	99%	2	0	1.00	0.00	4
41	Armenia	Eastern Armenian	99%	1	0	1.00	0.00	11
42	Ascension Island	English	99%	0	0	1.02	0.02	0
43	Bosnia-Herzegovina	Bosnian Standard	99%	3	0	1.00	0.00	3
44	Croatia	Croatian Standard	99%	1	2	1.00	0.00	21
45	Diego Garcia	English	99%	1	0	1.02	0.02	0
46	Greece	Modern Greek	99%	1	0	1.00	0.00	14
47	New Caledonia	French	99%	1	0	1.02	0.02	3
48	Russia	Russian	99%	1	20	1.02	0.02	85
49	Serbia	Serbian Standard	99%	1	5	1.00	0.00	25
50	Spain	Spanish	99%	1	5	1.00	0.00	19
51	Tristan da Cunha	English	99%	0	0	1.02	0.02	0
52	Åland Islands	Swedish	99%	1	0	1.02	0.02	0
53	Bangladesh	Bengali	98%	1	0	1.00	0.00	8
54	British Virgin Islands	English	98%	1	0	1.04	0.04	6
55	Cayman Islands	English	98%	1	0	1.04	0.04	5
56	Chile	Spanish	98%	1	0	1.03	0.03	16
57	Czech Republic	Czech	98%	1	0	1.00	0.00	14
58	Ireland	English	98%	2	0	1.00	0.00	4
59	Jamaica	English	98%	1	0	1.00	0.00	14
60	Lesotho	Southern Sotho	98%	2	0	1.00	0.00	10
61	Macau	Mandarin Chinese	98%	3	0	1.00	0.00	7
62	Maldives	Dhivehi	98%	1	0	1.00	0.00	21
63	New Zealand	English	98%	2	0	1.04	0.04	17
64	Seychelles	Seselwa Creole French	98%	2	0	1.00	0.00	4
65	St. Kitts & Nevis	English	98%	1	0	1.04	0.04	2
66	Tahiti	French	98%	2	0	1.00	0.00	5
67	Turks & Caicos Islands	English	98%	1	0	1.04	0.04	7
68	United Kingdom	English	98%	1	3	1.00	0.00	156
69	Aruba	Dutch	97%	2	0	1.00	0.00	8
70	Austria	German	97%	1	3	1.00	0.00	9
71	France	French	97%	1	0	1.00	0.00	0
72	Monaco	French	97%	1	0	1.06	0.06	4
73	Northern Mariana Islands	English	97%	1	0	1.03	0.03	3
74	Australia	English	96%	1	0	1.08	0.08	12
75	Ecuador	Spanish	96%	2	0	1.05	0.05	25
76	Grenada	English	96%	1	0	1.08	0.08	7
77	Norfolk Island	English	96%	1	0	1.08	0.08	0
78	Poland	Polish	96%	1	3	1.00	0.00	16
79	Portugal	Portuguese	96%	1	0	1.00	0.00	20
80	St. Vincent & the Grenadines	English	96%	1	0	1.08	0.08	2
81	United States	English	96%	1	2	1.07	0.07	51
82	Anguilla	English	95%	1	0	1.11	0.10	1
83	Costa Rica	Spanish	95%	1	0	1.11	0.10	7
84	Cyprus	Modern Greek	95%	2	0	1.00	0.00	12
85	Faroe Islands	Faroese	95%	1	0	1.11	0.10	10
86	Hong Kong	Mandarin Chinese	95%	2	0	1.00	0.00	3
87	Italy	Italian	95%	1	2	1.00	0.00	20
88	Japan	Japanese	95%	1	0	1.11	0.10	47
89	Jersey	English	95%	1	0	1.11	0.10	12
90	Nauru	English	95%	2	0	1.00	0.00	14
91	Pakistan	Urdu	95%	2	0	1.00	0.00	7
92	Sierra Leone	Krio	95%	1	0	1.00	0.00	16
93	Sweden	Swedish	95%	1	1	1.00	0.00	21
94	Taiwan	Mandarin Chinese	95%	3	0	1.00	0.00	22
95	Tonga	Tonga (Tonga Islands)	95%	2	0	1.02	0.02	5
96	Dominica	English	94%	1	0	1.13	0.12	10
97	Egypt	Standard Arabic	94%	1	0	1.00	0.00	27
98	Fiji	English	94%	3	0	1.00	0.00	15
99	Finland	Finnish	94%	2	1	1.00	0.00	19
100	Brunei	Standard Malay	93%	1	0	1.14	0.12	4
101	Colombia	Spanish	93%	1	0	1.16	0.14	33
102	Denmark	Danish	93%	1	2	1.00	0.00	5
103	Marshall Islands	English	93%	2	0	1.00	0.00	23
104	Mongolia	Mongolian	93%	1	0	1.15	0.13	22
105	Turkey	Turkish	93%	1	0	1.11	0.10	81
106	Bermuda	English	92%	1	0	1.18	0.15	9
107	Kosovo	Albanian	92%	2	0	1.00	0.00	0
108	Luxembourg	French	92%	3	0	1.00	0.00	12
109	Pitcairn Islands	English	92%	1	0	1.18	0.15	0
110	Brazil	Portuguese	91%	1	1	1.20	0.17	27
111	Cape Verde	Kabuverdianu	91%	1	0	1.00	0.00	9
112	Germany	German	91%	1	1	1.00	0.00	16
113	Guam	English	91%	2	0	1.14	0.12	19
114	Honduras	Spanish	91%	1	0	1.21	0.17	18
115	China	Mandarin Chinese	90%	1	5	1.22	0.18	31
116	Madagascar	Plateau Malagasy	90%	3	0	1.09	0.08	22
117	Mauritius	Morisyen	90%	2	0	1.00	0.00	12
118	Romania	Romanian	90%	1	0	1.07	0.07	42
119	Saint Lucia	English	90%	1	0	1.24	0.19	10
120	Slovakia	Slovak	90%	1	0	1.00	0.00	8
121	Suriname	Dutch	90%	1	0	1.00	0.00	10
122	Tanzania	Swahili	90%	2	0	1.00	0.00	31
123	Tunisia	Standard Arabic	90%	2	0	1.00	0.00	24
124	Vanuatu	Bislama	90%	3	0	1.00	0.00	6
125	Azerbaijan	North Azerbaijani	89%	1	0	1.25	0.20	15
126	Cambodia	Central Khmer	89%	1	0	1.26	0.21	25
127	El Salvador	Spanish	89%	1	0	1.26	0.21	14
128	Qatar	Standard Arabic	89%	1	0	1.24	0.20	8
129	Réunion	French	89%	1	0	1.00	0.00	26
130	San Marino	Italian	89%	1	0	1.26	0.21	9
131	Guatemala	Spanish	88%	1	7	1.25	0.20	22
132	Mayotte	Maore Comorian	88%	1	0	1.00	0.00	2
133	North Korea	Korean	88%	1	0	1.29	0.23	13
134	Trinidad & Tobago	English	88%	1	0	1.29	0.23	2
135	Uruguay	Spanish	88%	1	0	1.29	0.23	19
136	Bahrain	Standard Arabic	87%	1	0	1.32	0.24	4
137	Canada	English	87%	2	6	1.18	0.15	13
138	Equatorial Guinea	Spanish	87%	3	0	1.00	0.00	7
139	Mauritania	Hassaniyya	87%	1	0	1.00	0.00	13
140	Morocco	Moroccan Arabic	87%	3	0	1.00	0.00	10
141	Puerto Rico	Spanish	87%	2	0	1.00	0.00	3
142	Slovenia	Slovenian	87%	1	1	1.00	0.00	12
143	Antigua & Barbuda	English	86%	1	0	1.35	0.26	8
144	Georgia	Georgian	86%	1	2	1.31	0.23	13
145	Lithuania	Lithuanian	86%	1	0	1.00	0.00	10
146	Vietnam	Vietnamese	86%	1	0	1.35	0.26	63
147	Saint Barthélemy	French	85%	1	0	1.38	0.28	3
148	Syria	Levantine Arabic	85%	1	0	1.00	0.00	14
149	São Tomé and Príncipe	Portuguese	85%	1	0	1.31	0.24	4
150	Tuvalu	Tuvalu	85%	2	0	1.37	0.27	9
151	Uzbekistan	Uzbek	85%	1	0	1.35	0.26	14
152	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	Standard Malay	84%	1	0	1.36	0.27	0
153	Greenland	Kalaallisut	84%	1	0	1.38	0.27	5
154	Guadeloupe	French	84%	1	0	1.42	0.29	0
155	Saint Martin	French	84%	1	0	1.42	0.29	9
156	Algeria	Algerian Arabic	83%	2	0	1.00	0.00	58
157	Christmas Island	English	83%	1	0	1.45	0.31	0
158	Liberia	English	83%	1	0	1.00	0.00	15
159	Mexico	Spanish	83%	1	0	1.42	0.29	32
160	Wallis and Futuna	French	83%	1	0	1.00	0.00	5
161	Vatican City	Italian	82%	1	0	1.00	0.00	1
162	Venezuela	Spanish	82%	1	0	1.49	0.33	25
163	Bonaire	Papiamento	81%	1	0	1.51	0.34	3
164	Botswana	English	81%	2	0	1.00	0.00	10
165	Curaçao	Papiamento	81%	2	0	1.51	0.34	1
166	Haiti	Haitian	81%	2	0	1.20	0.17	10
167	Martinique	French	81%	1	0	1.52	0.34	0
168	Oman	Standard Arabic	81%	1	0	1.52	0.34	11
169	Zimbabwe	Shona	81%	3	0	1.17	0.14	10
170	Eswatini	English	80%	2	0	1.02	0.02	4
171	Gibraltar	English	80%	1	0	1.12	0.11	7
172	Singapore	English	80%	4	0	1.00	0.00	6
173	Thailand	Thai	80%	1	0	1.27	0.21	7
174	Dominican Republic	Spanish	78%	1	0	1.64	0.39	32
175	Nicaragua	Spanish	78%	1	0	1.64	0.39	17
176	Somalia	Somali	78%	2	0	1.38	0.28	18
177	United Arab Emirates	Standard Arabic	78%	1	0	1.16	0.14	7
178	Belize	English	77%	1	0	1.00	0.00	6
179	Falkland Islands	English	77%	1	0	1.69	0.41	3
180	Rwanda	Kinyarwanda	77%	3	0	1.62	0.38	5
181	Switzerland	German	76%	4	1	1.00	0.00	26
182	Iran	Western Farsi	75%	1	0	1.59	0.37	31
183	Malaysia	Standard Malay	75%	1	0	1.57	0.36	16
184	Namibia	Afrikaans	75%	1	0	1.32	0.25	14
185	US Virgin Islands	English	75%	1	0	1.78	0.44	3
186	Uganda	Swahili	75%	2	0	1.68	0.40	4
187	Libya	Standard Arabic	74%	1	0	1.83	0.45	1
188	Palau	Palauan	74%	2	0	1.80	0.45	16
189	Yemen	Standard Arabic	74%	1	0	1.80	0.44	22
190	Peru	Spanish	73%	2	0	1.80	0.44	25
191	Kazakhstan	Russian	72%	2	0	1.05	0.04	20
192	Belarus	Russian	71%	2	0	1.75	0.43	7
193	Estonia	Estonian	71%	1	0	1.00	0.00	15
194	Papua New Guinea	Tok Pisin	71%	3	0	1.32	0.25	22
195	Senegal	Wolof	70%	2	11	1.63	0.39	14
196	Turkmenistan	Turkmen	70%	1	0	1.95	0.49	6
197	Laos	Lao	69%	1	0	2.08	0.52	18
198	Panama	Spanish	69%	1	0	2.02	0.50	13
199	Paraguay	Paraguayan Guaraní	69%	2	0	1.08	0.07	18
200	Tokelau	Tokelau	69%	2	0	1.51	0.34	3
201	Cameroon	French	68%	2	0	1.63	0.39	10
202	Iraq	Standard Arabic	68%	1	2	1.64	0.39	19
203	Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	English	68%	1	0	2.16	0.54	6
204	Sint Maarten	English	68%	2	0	2.08	0.52	1
205	Sri Lanka	Sinhala	68%	2	0	2.02	0.51	9
206	Angola	Portuguese	67%	1	0	1.68	0.40	21
207	North Macedonia	Macedonian	67%	1	1	1.95	0.49	8
208	Comoros	Standard Arabic	66%	4	0	1.32	0.24	18
209	Kenya	Swahili	66%	2	0	1.86	0.46	47
210	Ukraine	Ukrainian	65%	2	0	1.57	0.36	25
211	Indonesia	Standard Indonesian	64%	1	0	1.83	0.45	37
212	Montserrat	English	64%	1	0	2.44	0.59	4
213	Myanmar	Burmese	64%	1	0	2.41	0.59	15
214	Philippines	English	64%	2	7	1.06	0.06	17
215	Burundi	Rundi	63%	3	0	1.34	0.26	5
216	Gabon	French	63%	1	0	2.47	0.59	9
217	Malawi	English	63%	2	0	1.25	0.20	3
218	Moldova	Romanian	63%	1	0	2.34	0.57	36
219	French Guiana	French	62%	1	0	2.21	0.55	0
220	Bolivia	Spanish	61%	3	0	1.94	0.49	9
221	Congo	French	61%	1	0	2.68	0.63	12
222	Latvia	Latvian	61%	1	0	1.36	0.26	5
223	Sudan	English	61%	2	0	1.00	0.00	18
224	Eritrea	Tigrinya	60%	3	0	1.34	0.25	6
225	Belgium	English	59%	3	0	1.17	0.14	11
226	East Timor	Portuguese	59%	2	0	1.44	0.30	14
227	Federated States of Micronesia	English	57%	1	0	2.09	0.52	4
228	Niue	English	56%	2	0	1.59	0.37	13
229	Nigeria	English	53%	2	0	2.63	0.62	37
230	Andorra	Catalan	51%	1	0	2.22	0.55	7
231	Congo DR	French	51%	1	4	1.92	0.48	26
232	Svalbard & Jan Mayen	Norwegian	51%	1	0	2.33	0.57	0
233	Afghanistan	Western Farsi	50%	2	2	2.27	0.56	34
234	Djibouti	French	50%	2	0	1.67	0.40	6
235	Central African Republic	Sango	49%	2	0	3.08	0.68	20
236	Kyrgyzstan	Kirghiz	48%	2	0	2.78	0.64	9
237	Bhutan	Dzongkha	47%	1	0	3.50	0.71	20
238	Mali	Bambara	46%	1	0	3.93	0.75	20
239	Nepal	Nepali	44%	1	0	4.63	0.78	7
240	Ethiopia	English	43%	1	0	2.47	0.59	13
241	India	Hindi	41%	2	19	4.25	0.76	36
242	Niger	Hausa	41%	1	0	4.50	0.78	8
243	Togo	French	41%	1	0	5.07	0.80	5
244	Burkina Faso	Mossi	40%	1	0	3.08	0.68	13
245	Gambia	English	40%	1	0	4.10	0.76	8
246	Ghana	Akan	39%	1	3	4.67	0.79	16
247	Benin	French	34%	1	0	5.48	0.82	12
248	Côte d'Ivoire	French	34%	1	0	7.63	0.87	33
249	Zambia	Bemba (Zambia)	34%	1	0	5.11	0.80	10
250	South Africa	English	31%	1	10	4.37	0.77	9
251	Guinea	French	27%	1	0	3.92	0.75	8
252	Mozambique	Portuguese	27%	1	0	8.55	0.88	11
253	South Sudan	English	27%	1	0	6.71	0.85	11
254	Chad	Standard Arabic	17%	2	0	21.83	0.95	23

Where these numbers come from

Unicode CLDR territoryInfo (release 49) (Unicode License v3). Country-level language shares, official status and Tier 3 reach (populationPercent is total speakers, first plus second language).
Glottolog 5.3 (CC BY 4.0). Language names, ISO 639-3 codes, families.
Database of International and Intranational Linguistic distances (DICL v2), USITC (CC BY 4.0). Country-pair linguistic proximity (loaded, not yet shown in release one).
States (ISO 3166-2) sheet, MetroAreas workbook (Citizen of Nowhere, own compilation). States, populations and the four language labels per state.
Natural Earth 1:110m Admin 0 Countries (nvkelso/natural-earth-vector) (Public domain). World outline for the language maps (world-110m.geojson, properties reduced to iso3 and name).
Country layer of this site (countries.json workbook population, World Bank iso2 and iso3, OWID country-population) (Citizen of Nowhere, own compilation; World Bank CC BY 4.0; OWID CC BY). Country population, iso2 and /countries slug joined onto languages, countries and families (speakers = share x population).

CLDR shares count first and second language speakers, so they overlap and are never normalised. See Method.