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Countries with the Most Semitic Language Speakers

Name the top 15 countries that contain the most speakers of languages in the Semitic family as their native language as of 2020.
Data from worldpopulationreview.com and various other sources
These are rough estimates, as exact language data is extremely difficult to come by
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Semitic speaking pop.
Percent of total pop.
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108,207,000
99%
Egypt
41,148,800
35.2%
Ethiopia
40,100,000
83.5%
Algeria
28,164,500
52.9%
Sudan
27,178,770
77.3%
Saudi Arabia
25,003,930
64.5%
Morocco
22,908,120
47.7%
Iraq
17,951,639
67.8%
Syria
14,671,000
34.1%
Yemen
10,800,500
87%
Tunisia
8,300,000
93.5%
Israel
5,083,300
43.9%
Jordan
4,526,000
60%
Libya
4,321,600
75.9%
(Palestine)
4,180,000
70.9%
Lebanon
3,788,000
18.7%
Somalia
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4 Comments
ismanour
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Level 60
Mar 12, 2026
How is it possible that only 68% of Egypt speaks a Semitic language considering that around 98% are native in an Arabic dialect (Egyptian, Saidi, Bedawi and Sudanese)? The numbers make no sense.
OvenBobat
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Level 65
Mar 12, 2026
Fixed! Only 68 percent speak Egyptian Arabic, and I forgot to include the other dialects
J31
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Level 59
Apr 15, 2026
That type of thing seems to be the case with a lot of these. I have a hard time believing that 52.3% of Iraq is Kurds, and I don't even have a guess as to what non-Semitic language the majority of Yemen or Jordan may be speaking (I'm also suspicious of the numbers for Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Libya, and Lebanon).
OvenBobat
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Level 65
Apr 15, 2026
It's really difficult to get specific data for this, so I made this based on general data. If you have an idea of where to get better data, let me know
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