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Zikten posted...

That wil change before the year 2100

Unlikely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_the_number_of_countries_in_which_they_are_recognized_as_an_official_language
Only 3 countries in the world speak Mandarin as a native language.
China, Singapore, Taiwan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers

While Mandarin is the 2nd most popular in total speakers, the # of countries that use it as their primary language is few.

There are 59 countries around the world that has English as their primary language.
This makes English the #1 language by # of countries that use the language as a primary language.

1) English @ 59 Countries
2) French @ 29 Countries
3) Arabic @ 22-25 Countries
4) Spanish @ 20-21 Countries
5) Portuguese @ 9-10 Countries
6) German @ 6 Countries
7) Russian @ 5-10 Countries
8) Swahili @ 5 Countries
9) Serbo-Croation @ 4-5 Countries.

There are a total of 1.348 billion English Speakers that have English as their Primary or Secondary language.
Mandarin has a total of 1.120 billion Speakers for both Primary & Secondary languages.

But Mandarin is limited to 3 countries as a primary language.

English has 59 Countries.

The same logic can apply to Hindi which is the #3 language in Total population that speak it as a Primary or Secondary language.
There are ~600 million Hindi speakers.

But there are only 3 countries that speak HindiUrdu. That makes them ranks #16 by total # of countries that use the language.

You can make your own decision based on where you plan on doing business, living, working, visiting as to what is a more efficient use of your time when it comes to learning a language.

BTW, I can speak both English & Mandarin.