Hausa

41.7M people can hold a conversation in Hausa across 6 countries; official in 0.

Data as of 28 Oct 2026 · ISO 639-3 hau · Glottolog haus1257 · Afro-Asiatic · CLDR 49, Glottolog 5.3, States sheet

Where Hausa is spoken

Share of each country's people who can hold a conversation in it.

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Countries

Share of the population and people who can hold a conversation in it, by country.

How this is measured

Most figures are CLDR's estimates of speakers. CLDR lists only each country's larger languages, so where it has no figure a national census or official survey fills in, and the Figure column says which and what it counts. A home-language figure is a floor: more people can speak the language than use it at home.

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Nigeria

none

13%

29.1M

Niger

none

41%

11.3M

Sudan

none

1.8%

959K

Ghana

none

0.9%

296K

Cameroon

none

0.1%

41K

Canada

none · Census, mother tongue

0.0%

#	Country			Status	Figure
1	Nigeria	13%	29.1M	none	CLDR
2	Niger	41%	11.3M	none	CLDR
3	Sudan	1.8%	959K	none	CLDR
4	Ghana	0.9%	296K	none	CLDR
5	Cameroon	0.1%	41K	none	CLDR
6	Canada	0.0%	0	none	Census, mother tongue

States where it is the first language

States whose first language is this one, largest population first.

15.5M

10.4M

9.0M

8.3M

7.5M

6.8M

6.4M

Borno

6.1M

5.8M

5.6M

3.6M

3.5M

#	State	Country
1	Kano	Nigeria	15,462,200
2	Katsina	Nigeria	10,368,500
3	Kaduna	Nigeria	9,032,200
4	Bauchi	Nigeria	8,308,800
5	Jigawa	Nigeria	7,499,100
6	Niger	Nigeria	6,783,300
7	Sokoto	Nigeria	6,391,000
8	Borno	Nigeria	6,111,500
9	Zamfara	Nigeria	5,833,500
10	Kebbi	Nigeria	5,563,900
11	Taraba	Nigeria	3,609,800
12	Zinder	Niger	3,539,764
13	Maradi	Niger	3,402,094
14	Tahoua	Niger	3,328,365
15	Tillabéri	Niger	2,722,842
16	Dosso	Niger	2,037,713
17	Niamey	Niger	1,026,848
18	Diffa	Niger	593,821
19	Agadez	Niger	487,620

Family

Where it sits in the Glottolog tree, root to language.

Afro-Asiatic
Chadic
West Chadic
West Chadic A
West Chadic A.1
Hausa

Afro-Asiatic: 42 languages, 836M speakers.

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).

Definitions are on the Method page.