Close to 470 million people use it as native language. Forecasts show that within three or four generations 10% of the world’s population will communicate in Spanish.

21 million people speak Spanish as second language, which represents an increase of close to 1,5 million persons compared to year 2014.

Other significant indicator about the boom of Spanish is that it is Wikipedia’s second most important language escalating from a fifth position last year.

This is consistent with the trend noticed on social networks which shows Spanish as the second language most used on Facebook and Twitter and it is the third most-used language overall on the Internet with an 8% share.

Studies by the Instituto Cervantes show interesting facts about growing popularity of Spanish across the board.

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