As of 2013 Hispanic or Latino people made up 17.1% of the US population. Around 37.6 million people spoke Spanish in the home as of 2011, that is two-thirds of the non-english speaking population in the US.
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Spanish is spoken by approximately 13.5% of the population in the United States, making it one of the most widely spoken languages in the country after English.
Approximately 0.3% of the US population speaks Italian as their primary language. Italian is not as widely spoken in the US compared to other languages like Spanish or Chinese.
Mexico is the Spanish speaking country that borders the US to the south.
Spanish is the most frequently spoken foreign language in the US.
Approximately 460 million people in the world speak Spanish as their native language. It is the second most spoken language in the world by native speakers.
Mexico and Cuba are the two Spanish-speaking countries closest to the US geographically.