Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: In 1999 , there were according to Ethnologue 358 million people speaking Spanish as a native language and a total of 417 million speakers worldwide . Currently these figures are up to 400 and 500 million people respectively .
Simplified: Indeed , Spanish is spoken actually by 358 million people in the world as their primary language , while English by 350 million .