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Most Spoken Languages in Europe

The most native spoken language in Europe is German as the national language of Germany and Austria has about 90 million native speakers in the EU. This puts it ahead of English, which has about 64 million native speakers in the EU and French with about 63 million native speakers in the EU.

Language in Europe (% of EU population)

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Language	Countries	As mother tongue	Not native	TOTAL
English	United Kingdom, Ireland Malta	13%	38%	51%
German	Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, Belgium, Italy, France, Denmark, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania Hungary	18%	14%	32%
French	France, Belgium, Luxembourg Italy	12%	14%	26%
Italian	Italy, Slovenia Malta	13%	3%	16%
Spanish	Spain	9%	6%	15%
Polish	Poland, Germany, Slovakia, Lithuania Latvia	9%	1%	10%
Russian	Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania Greece	1%	6%	7%
Dutch	Netherlands, Belgium France	5%	1%	6%
Swedish	Sweden Finland	2%	1%	3%
Greek	Greece, Cyprus Italy	3%	0%	3%
Czech	Czech Republic  Austria Slovakia	2%	1%	3%
Hungarian	Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia Austria	2%	0%	2%
Portuguese	Portugal	2%	0%	2%
Slovak	Slovakia, Czech Republic Hungary	1%	1%	2%
Catalan	Spain, France Italy	1%	1%	2%

 

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The top non-native English speaking countries

From an article at link here
…. “EF Education poll was measured by testing non-native English speakers in 100 countries and over 400 cities and regions who voluntarily agreed to take the test.”

01 Netherlands 70.27 / 100
02 Sweden 68.74
03 Norway 67.93
04 Denmark 67.87
05 Singapore 66.82
06 South Africa 65.38
07 Finland 65.34
08 Austria 64.11
09 Luxembourg 64.03
10 Germany 63.77
11 Poland 63.76
12 Portugal 63.14
13 Belgium 63.09
14 Croatia 63.07