What languages are most popular amongst the literati in your country / region?

A pretentious question, I know. What are the commonly studied languages by the educated where you live? They might not even use it in daily life, but they usually have a good enough grasp of it for education / work / travel.

For example, in Hong Kong where I’m from, it’s English (by a comfortable margin) then Japanese, in my opinion. I imagine it’s English in the non-anglophone western countries and Russian in the ex-USSR states.