Could you show reliable source about numbers of arabs which you claim to be 500 million people? or lets better say the amount of people who speak arabic as first language (that would be closer to the linguistic-cultural explanation of who's considered arab).
The total number of Arabic speakers living in the
Arab nations is estimated at
366 million by the
CIA Factbook (as of 2014). The estimated number of Arabs in countries outside the Arab League is estimated at 17.5 million, yielding a total of close to
384 million.
Ethnologue:
313 millon arabic speakers.
Semitic languages are spoken by more than
330 million people across much of
Western Asia,
North Africa and the
Horn of Africa, as well as in often large
expatriate communities in
North America and
Europe, with smaller communities in the
Caucasus and
Central Asia. The terminology was first used in the 1780s by members of the
Göttingen School of History.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_languages
Wikipedia uses a lot of outdated sources.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabs
Arabs
عَرَب ('arab)
Total population
c. 450 million (2011 est.)
[1]
Regions with significant populations
Arab League 430,000,000
[2][3]
That was 2011. The population has increased by at least
50 million since then.
Here the very large worldwide Arab diaspora (some 40-50 million people) is not included. In Latin America people of Arab origins number between 20-30 million people, at the lowest.
Most estimates say that at least 5% of Latin Americas population is of Arab origin.
The population of Latin America is 650 million. 5% of that is 32.5 million.
5 million people of Arab origin in Indonesia alone as well.
Over 10 million (at least nowadays) Arabs in Europe alone.
That's 47.5 million people.
People of Arab origin in South East Asia as a whole numbers around 7.5-8 million people.
So 50 million people in total.
Arabs of the Sahel, Horn of Africa and Swahili coastline are unaccounted for here. Some 5-10 million people.
60 million people now.
3.5 million Arab-Americans.
So the Arab diaspora is at least between 50-65 million people.
Between 500.000-1 million Arab people in Australia as well. Some 500.000 in Canada.
Some 1 million people born to Arab fathers in Europe in the past 10 years and non-Arab mothers.
South Asia is not included here, such as Sri Lankan Moors, Arab communities in Hyderabad, Gujarat, Sindh etc. of which most have been assimilated ages ago in Pakistan for example.
How could I forget Turkey, where there are (nowadays) some 5-6 million Arabs, if we include the indigenous Turkish Arabs that predate the limited Turkic migrations to Anatolia.
Arabs in Caucasus, Central Asia, Afghanistan etc. Although many have been assimilated and millions of locals probably having partial Arab ancestry just like in many areas of Southern Europe.
Combined (as of 2018) easily 500 million people. Probably closer to 550 million.
By 2100 Iraq alone will have a larger population than Iran and Turkey combined. Some 160-170 million people.
Arabs will probably be very close to Han Chinese by 2100 as well.
So numbers won't be an issue. Even in Iraq (post 2003) the population has been growing very quickly each day, week, month and year. Same in Yemen, Libya etc. Conflicts play no role here in slowing down population growth, maybe with the exception of Syria.
As for Arabic language (you can be an ethnic Arab without speaking Arabic just like you can be an non-Arab and speak Arabic = I think that at least 100 million non-Arab people have a significant understanding of Arabic, either written or spoken), over 400 million speak it and it is the world's third or fourth most spoken language in the world. Not bad, when there are 1000's of languages in the world.
EDIT: Forgot the Arabs of your country as well. At least 2 million people with millions more unaccounted for (partial Arab ancestry) long ago assimilated.
