What percentage of the population of earth is Arab?
Its in the news a lot (lately) so I was wondering.
Isn’t Asian the group most represented?
Well, here’s Ethnologue’s list of dialects of Arabic:
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=6
By a really unscientific method (adding up the lists of speakers of each dialect), I get 221,544,890 speakers of Arabic. Of course, that’s far from an exact number…some of those population figures are 7 years old, I have no way of verifying the figures themselves, different estimates are from different years, and I don’t know if the estimates are estimates of speakers of Arabic or native speakers of Arabic.