I would bet not.
Primarily because populations in sub-Saharan Africa will collapse, due to disease and starvation before the area could support that kind of growth.
Mandarin will most likely be the most common language, I would not be surprised to see Spanish to be more commonly spoken than English.
I would not be surprised to see Spanish to be more commonly spoken than English.”
Do believe you are right on the money. All the school kids in Texas now take a Spanish class. Everywhere you go signs are in English and Spanish and more labels and signs in grocery stores are in Spanish. Turned on the AM radio the other day - most all of the stations were Spanish.
Sometimes I feel like I’m in the heart of Mexico. Would prefer French but it’s not going to happen, at least in our state.
The internet is English friendly. Most educated South Americans speak English, and you need English to learn advanced science.etc. because that is what the text books are written in.6
as for Mandarin...one third of Chinese do not speak it, and many who do speak a dialect that others may not understand. Most if the Chinese diaspora speak Cantonese...Then there is the problem of writing Chinese.