Language Stats: compare key data on Spain & United States

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	Spain	United States
Languages	Castilian Spanish (official) 74%, Catalan 17%, Galician 7%, Basque 2%, are official regionally	English 82.1%, Spanish 10.7%, other Indo-European 3.8%, Asian and Pacific island 2.7%, other 0.7%; <i>note:</i> Hawaiian is an official language in the state of Hawaii
Linguistic diversity index	0.438 Ranked 99th. 24% more than United States	0.353 Ranked 114th.
Major language(s)	Spanish (Castilian), Catalan and its variant Valencian, Gallego (Galician), Euskera (Basque)	English
Spanish speakers	28.17 million Ranked 1st. 26% more than United States	22.4 million Ranked 1st.
Spanish speakers per 1000	705.64 Ranked 1st. 8 times more than United States	89.74 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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