Tuesday, June 1, 2010

FIFA Rankings by Language Spoken

The current FIFA world rankings categorized by a few of the most widely spoken world languages.

ARABIC (official or co-official language)
12 - Egypt
26 - Israel
30 - Algeria
55 - Tunisia
66 - Saudi Arabia
69 - Bahrain
70 - Morocco
80 - Iraq
91 - Oman
96 - Qatar
97 - Kuwait
98 - Syria
101 - UAE
102 - Libya
104 - Jordan
112 - Yemen
118 - Sudan
143 - Chad
155 - Eritrea
160 - Lebanon
164 - Mauritania
171 - Comoros
173 - Palestine
173 - Somalia
188 - Djibouti

DUTCH (official or co-official language)
4 - Netherlands
59 - Belgium
137 - Suriname
154 - Netherlands Antilles
198 - Aruba

ENGLISH (Countries where a minimum of 1 million people speak English as their first language)
8 - England
14 - USA
20 - Australia
21 - Nigeria
41 - Republic of Ireland
43 - Scotland
56 - Northern Ireland
63 - Canada
77 - Wales
78 - New Zealand
81 - Jamaica
83 - South Africa
95 - Trinidad and Tobago
169 - Philippines

FRENCH (official or co-official language, minimum 400,000 speakers)
9 - France
19 - Cameroon
24 - Switzerland
27 - Cote d'Ivoire
42 - Gabon
48 - Burkina Faso
54 - Mali
59 - Belgium
60 - Benin
63 - Canada
75 - Senegal
76 - Togo
87 - Guinea
91 - Haiti
107 - Rwanda
121 - Congo DR
127 - Luxembourg
143 - Chad
148 - Madagascar
162 - Niger
202 - Central African Republic

GERMAN (official or co-official language)
6 - Germany
24 - Switzerland
59 - Belgium
68 - Austria
111 - Namibia
127 - Luxembourg
149 - Liechtenstein

PORTUGUESE (official or co-official language)
1 - Brazil
3 - Portugal
85 - Mozambique
88 - Angola
114 - Cape Verde
141 - Equatorial Guinea
191 - Guinea-Bissau
197 - Macau
200 - Timor-Leste

SPANISH (official or co-official language)
2 - Spain
7 - Argentina
16 - Uruguay
17 - Mexico
18 - Chile
31 - Paraguay
35 - Colombia
38 - Honduras
40 - Costa Rica
44 - Ecuador
49 - Venezuela
53 - Peru
65 - Bolivia
72 - El Salvador
74 - Panama
114 - Guatemala
126 - Cuba
141 - Equatorial Guinea
155 - Nicaragua
166 - Puerto Rico
187 - Dominican Republic

2 comments:

  1. You should do average rank for each of these languages!

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  2. Brett,

    I thought about doing that, but with this particular list it wouldn't be all that accurate.

    I used a population cutoff for French and English meaning a couple of dozen small Caribbean and Oceania nations weren't included in this list. Obviously that would drastically change the average rankings.

    Also a few countries (Belgium, Canada, etc.) are listed more than once because they have multiple official languages.

    Maybe I'll try to come up with a reasonably accurate way to do an average 'language rank' at some point, it would definitely be interesting to look at.

    Thanks

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