The Numbers of Spanish Speakers in the World Exceeds 500 million July 26, 2014 The chart below gives data by country of the 460,368,652 native Spanish speakers in the world and 517,423,452 million who speak Spanish including those who speak it as their second language. There are at least 70 countries in the world with measurable Spanish speaking populations. At least 29 countries have more than 1 million Spanish speakers.