28.1 million spanish speakers were there in the us as of 2015.
how many spanish speakers were there in the us as of 2015?
28.1 million
according to a 2011 paper by u.s. census bureau demographers jennifer ortman and hyon b. shin, the number of spanish speakers is projected to rise through 2020 to anywhere between 39 million and 43 million, depending on the assumptions one makes about immigration. most of these spanish speakers will be hispanic, with ortman and shin projecting between 37.5 million and 41 million hispanic spanish speakers by 2020.





























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spanish language
the (cervantes institute) is a worldwide nonprofit organization created by the spanish government in 1991. this organization has branched out in over 20 different countries, with 75 centers devoted to the spanish and hispanic american cultures and spanish language. the ultimate goals of the institute are to promote universally the education, the study, and the use of spanish as a second language, to support methods and activities that help the process of spanish-language education, and to contribute to the advancement of the spanish and hispanic american cultures in non-spanish-speaking countries. the institute's 2015 report "el español, una lengua viva" (spanish, a living language) estimated that there were 559 million spanish speakers worldwide. its latest annual report "el español en el mundo 2018" (spanish in the world 2018) counts 577 million spanish speakers worldwide. among the sources cited in the report is the u.s. census bureau, which estimates that the u.s. will have 138 million spanish speakers by 2050, making it the biggest spanish-speaking nation on earth, with spanish the mother tongue of almost a third of its citizens.
spanish language