Eric,
This might help you sort out what language you should to speak and where you should live:-))I would be careful about living in Quebec though. Its only a matter of time before Quebec's new prime minister, Landry foments another pogrom.
World Languages
Languages spoken by the most people (Native speakers only) in the world:
Mandarin
885 million
Hindi
375 million
Spanish
358 million
English
347 million
Arabic
211 million
Bengali
210 million
Portuguese
178 million
Russian
165 million
Japanese
125 million
German
100 million
French
77 million
Malay-Indonesian
58 million
Religions of the World
The largest religious group in the world is the Christians with a total of 1,955,229,000 persons constituting 33.7% of the population. The Christian group can be divided into many sects. The largest of these sects are the Roman Catholics which constitute 16.9% of the Christian group, followed by the Protestants 7.0%, Orthodox 3.8%, Anglicans 1.2% and other Christian groups holding the remaining 4.9%.
The second largest of the world religious groups are the Muslims or followers of the Islam faith, followed by 15.3%, representing those persons of the population who are non-religious. The Hindu religion, another of the Asian routed religions, holds a total of 13.7% of the population and is followed by the group of Atheists with 5.6% of the population having no belief in a deity. Chinese Folk Religionists hold 3.8%, New Religionists 1.8%, Ethnic Religionists 1.8% and Sikhs 0.3%. The remaining religious groups consist of a variety of folk and ethnic religions that have originated from around the world. Not documented on the chart above are smaller religious groups such as the Jews, Spiritualists, Baha'is, Confucians, Jains, Shintoists, Parsees, Mandeans and other Religionists that each hold less than 1% of the total. |
