Languages - Desire versus Utilization

A highly unscientific look at languages people want to learn (as pulled from various searches on 43things.com) versus the worldwide usage of those same languages, as pulled from some kind of About.com page.

The rank diff column tallies the results:

All numbers south of zero (black dots indicate extremes) indicate languages that are underrepresented, Hindi being the most greivously short with only 453 supporters on 43things.com despite being the 5th most popular language in the world.

All numbers above zero (red dots indicate extremes) indicate languages that have a disproportionately large number of potential students - French hits the highest mark here; the third most popular language on 43things.com is only the 18th most popular language in the world.

Spanish appears to be as close to dead-on as can be expected.

Update: I realized I labeled the columns for 43things as "42". I have no idea why.