Language Stats: compare key data on Mexico & Spain

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Languages: A rank ordering of languages starting with the largest and sometimes includes the percent of total population speaking that language.
Linguistic diversity index: LDI.
Major language(s): Country major languages.
Spanish speakers per 1000: . Figures expressed per thousand population for the same year.

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STAT	Mexico	Spain
Languages	Spanish only 92.7%, Spanish and indigenous languages 5.7%, indigenous only 0.8%, unspecified 0.8%; note - indigenous languages include various Mayan, Nahuatl, and other regional languages	Castilian Spanish (official) 74%, Catalan 17%, Galician 7%, Basque 2%, are official regionally
Linguistic diversity index	0.135 Ranked 154th.	0.438 Ranked 99th. 3 times more than Mexico
Major language(s)	Spanish	Spanish (Castilian), Catalan and its variant Valencian, Gallego (Galician), Euskera (Basque)
Spanish speakers	86.21 million Ranked 1st. 3 times more than Spain	28.17 million Ranked 1st.
Spanish speakers per 1000	903.75 Ranked 10th. 28% more than Spain	705.64 Ranked 1st.

SOURCES: CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; Wikipedia: Linguistic diversity index (Rankings by country) (UNESCO World Report – Investing in Cultural Diversity and Intercultural Dialogue); British Broadcasting Corporation 2014; Ethnologue; Ethnologue. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.

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