The future of the French language

Although many were betting on Chinese dialects such as Mandarin or Cantonese, it is French that will have the largest number of native users, a study commissioned by the investment bank Natixis showed that French will be the most spoken language in the world by 2050 due to to the demographic explosion of the sub-Saharan countries, mostly former colonies of France.
Due to this demographic explosion, Africa will represent 85% of the Francophones in the world in 2050 out of a total of 750 million, more than double the almost 300 million computed today, according to the Organization Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) .
The OIF brings together 89 states or governments whose populations use French to a greater or lesser extent and publicly vindicate certain common values, such as cultural diversity and democracy.
The future of the French language is African.
The study showed that about 8% of the world’s population will be French-speaking by 2050, according to the Daily Mail site, compared to 3.2% who speak it today.
Part of the success of French is due to the fact that in 1994 the Toubon Law was passed whereby all French government institutions (including schools throughout the world) and their corresponding communications had to be in French.
The language of the neighboring country thus appears as a gateway not only to the labor market and the French economy, but also a useful tool in parts of Africa .