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Knowledge of languages: Catalan, Spanish, English and French

Population aged 15 and over according to knowledge of languages Catalonia. 2023
Catalan Spanish English French
Understanding 6,337.5 6,755.3 3,505.8 1,828.9
Speaking 5,454.7 6,733.6 2,944.6 1,282.6
Reading 5,709.4 6,617.1 3,168.6 1,464.2
Writing 4,448.4 6,408.7 2,778.0 992.6
Knowledge all competencies 4,418.5 6,401.7 2,644.1 954.5
Units: Milers de persones.
Source: Idescat and Ministry of Language Policy . Survey on Language Uses of the Population.
Population aged 15 and over according to knowledge of languages Catalonia. 2023
Catalan Spanish English French
Understanding 93.4 99.6 51.7 27.0
Speaking 80.4 99.2 43.4 18.9
Reading 84.1 97.5 46.7 21.6
Writing 65.6 94.5 40.9 14.6
Knowledge all competencies 65.1 94.4 39.0 14.1
Units: Percentatge.
Source: Idescat and Ministry of Language Policy . Survey on Language Uses of the Population.
Population aged 15 and over according to self-assessment in knowledge of languages Catalonia. 2023
Catalan Spanish English French
Understanding 8.3 9.5 4.2 2.4
Speaking 7.2 9.4 3.9 1.8
Reading 7.7 9.3 4.3 2.2
Writing 6.1 9.0 3.8 1.6
Units: Mean scores from 0 to 10.
Source: Idescat and Ministry of Language Policy . Survey on Language Uses of the Population.

Last update: February 19, 2025.

Methodological note

You can get more information about these statistics in the methodology.