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Percentage of English speakers by country.
  80-100%
  60-80%
  40-60%
  20-40%
   0.1-20%
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The following is a list of English-speaking population by country, including information on both native speakers and second-language speakers.

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Some numbers have been calculated by Wikipedia editors by mixing data from different sources; figures not attributed to sources and given with a date should be treated with caution.

Country  % English speakers % As a First Language Eligible population Total English speakers As first language As an additional language[1] Comments Comments
 United States 94.2 80.6 316,823,000 298,444,149 255,505,953 42,938,196 Figures are from the year 2007 American Community Survey by the U.S. Census Bureau. English speaker figures are for persons age 5 and older. Total population age 5 and older was 280,950,438 of which 267,444,149 stated that they spoke English "very well" or "well". Second language speakers are respondents age 5 and older who reported they do not speak English at home but know it "very well" or "well".[2]
 India 10.35 0.019 1,210,000,000 125,226,449 226,449 125,000,000 2001 figures for native language (first language).[3][4][5] The additional language figure includes English speakers, but not English users.[6][7] Data from the 2005 India Human Development Survey shows that surveyed households reported that among men 72 per cent do not speak English, 28 per cent speak at least some English, and 5 percent are fluent. Among women, the corresponding proportions were 83 per cent, 17 per cent, and 3 per cent.[8]
 Pakistan 49 188,400,100 92,316,049 92,316,049 Official and educational language of Pakistan is English. Estimate by Euromonitor International (2009), based on trade interviews, data from the Statistics Division of the Government of Pakistan and other government bodies.[9]
 Nigeria 53 156,493,000 82,941,000 82,941,000 Euromonitor International report (2009)
 United Kingdom 97.74 92.14 64,000,000 63,962,000 58,972,000 5,128,000 Source: Data from the 2011 census for England and Wales.[10] Additional English speaker figures are for usual residents aged 3 years and over with a main language other than English who can speak English "very well" or "well".
 Philippines 63 63 100,437,852 64,025,891 36,935 63,988,956 Total population: Census 2010. Proportion of total speakers: Census 2000, text above Figure 7. 63.71% of the then 66.7 million people aged 5 years or more could speak English.[11] Proportion of native speakers: Census 1995, as quoted by Andrew Gonzalez in "The Language Planning Situation in the Philippines", Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 19 (5&6), 487–525, p. 492: .04% of the then 68.4 million people were native speakers of English. (1998).[12] "Six out of 10 people aged 5 and over can speak english (63.71%)."[13]
 Germany 64 0.338 80,600,000 51,584,000 272,504 48,000,000 Native speakers: Statistisches Bundesamt (cited here).
Non-native speakers: Eurobarometer report 2006
Does not include foreign military personnel based in Germany.
 Bangladesh 18 18 163,323,100 30,108031 709,873 29,398,158 Source: Euromonitor International report 2009, Euromonitor Dec 2010 [14]
 Canada 85.63 58.64 33,121,175 28,360,240 19,424,090 8,936,150 Source: 2011 Census, Population by knowledge of official languages and Population by mother tongue. The 2011 count reported that 22,564,665 people were able to conduct a conversation in English but not French, while 5,795,575 were able to converse in both English and French. The census also asked for the first language learned at home in childhood and still understood by the individual: 18,858,980 reported English as their sole mother tongue, 144,685 reported both English and French as mother tongues, 396,330 reported English and a non-official language as mother tongues, and 24,095 reported English, French and a non-official language as mother tongues.
 Egypt 35 83,289,500 28,101,325 28,101,325 Source: Euromonitor International Report 2011 [15]
 France 39 65,350,000 25,500,000 25,500,000 Source: Eurobarometer report 2012
 Italy 34 59,619,290 20,300,000 20,300,000 Source: Eurobarometer report 2012
 Australia 97.03 70.17 21,394,309 17,357,833 15,013,965 2,343,868 Source: 2001 Census.[16] The 2001 census data is subject to multiple interpretations. The data noted that 18,972,350 persons out of 21,394,309 total were speakers of a language, and excluded young children. However, more than a million of those 18,972,350 persons provided no information; 879,778 did not give information on proficiency, and 203,101 were "overseas visitors" who were not asked. Of the 17,889,671 persons for whom an inquiry was made 17,357,833 spoke English only, or "well" or "very well" as a second language; while 531,838 spoke "not well" or "not at all".
 Thailand 27.16 63,038,247 17,121,187 17,121,187 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109.
 Netherlands 90 16,770,000 15,030,000 15,030,000 Source: Eurobarometer report 2012
   Nepal 46.49 0.067 29,890,686 13,896,720 20,000 876,720 Source: Census. (date not verified)[citation needed]
 South Africa 31 9.3 52,981,991 16,424,417 4,930,510 11,493,907 Native speakers from 2011 Census: Census in Brief, page 23.
Non-native speakers: Crystal (2003), p. 109.
 Poland 37 37 38,501,000 14,300,000 100,000 14,200,000 Source: Central Statistical Office,[17] Additional language speakers are people age 18-69, who reported English Language as their first of second best foreign language, Central Statistical Office [18] Native language counted as those who speak English at home.
 Turkey 17 70,586,256 12,000,000 12,000,000 Source: Eurobarometer report 2006
 Iraq 35 31,700,000 11,095,000 11,000,000 Source: Euromonitor International report (2011)
 Spain 22 47,190,000 10,400,000 10,400,000 Source: Eurobarometer report 2012
 China 0.8 1,200,000,000 10,000,000 100,000,000 Figures are for English users in mainland China only (i.e. excluding Hong Kong where English is an official language and Macau). The oft-cited figure of 300 million is for "learners."[19]

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 Brazil 5 0.14 205,000,000 10,542,000 292,000 10,250,000 Source: British council (2012) and EF. Only 5% of Brazilians have a proficient grasp of English as a second or foreign additional language and an additional 6% have a very rudimentary knowledge. Brazil has 240 thousand British descendants and 180 thousand American ancestry citizens including the Confederados cultural sub-group, descendants of the Confederate colonies.
 Sweden 86 9,785,000 8,200,000 8,200,000 Source: Eurobarometer report 2012
 Kenya 18.83 43,013,431 8,100,000 7,900,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109.
 Cameroon 38 19,740,000 7,500,000 7,500,000 Euromonitor International Report (2009)
 Malaysia 62.57 1.4 27,170,000 5,580,000 380,000 5,200,000 EF English Proficiency Index[21]
 Russia 5.48 0.002 138,312,535 7,574,303 2,522 7,571,787 Source: Composition by Nationality and Language Ability, Citizenship, Tables 4.5 and 4.1, Russian Census (2010). The "total" figure is the number of residents who reported English as one of the languages they knew. The "first language" figure is the number of residents who reported "American" or "English" as their nationality. The "additional languages" figure is the difference. More than 9 million schoolgoers studied English as a foreign language in 2008-2009.
 Belgium 59 10,584,534 6,250,000 6,250,000 Source: Eurobarometer report 2006 (the 2012 report seems to have a critical typo)
 Israel 84.97 1.37 7,303,000 6,205,000 100,000 6,105,000 Source: Ethnologue (2005)[22]
English is widely spoken, both by the Jewish majority and by minority ethnic groups.[23][24]
 Austria 73 8,415,000 6,150,000 6,150,000 Source: Eurobarometer report 2012
 Romania 31 19,043,767 5,900,000 5,900,000 Source: Eurobarometer report 2012
 Zimbabwe 41.58 1.87 13,349,000 5,550,000 250,000 5,300,000 Crystal (2003), p. 109.
 Greece 51 10,787,690 5,500,000 5,500,000 Source: Eurobarometer report 2012
 Sierra Leone 83.53 8.52 5,866,000 4,900,000 500,000 4,400,000 Crystal (2003), p. 109. Note this includes speakers of an English creole.
 Mexico 12.9 120,664,000 15,686,262 15,686,262 Consulta Mitofsky-Tracking Poll Roy Campos: Las Lenguas Extranjeras en México, January 2013;[25] and II Conteo de Población y Vivienda, Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI).[26]
 Denmark 86 5,543,000 4,770,000 4,770,000 Source: Eurobarometer report 2012
  Switzerland 61.28 0.96 7,637,300 4,680,000 73,400 4,606,600 Figure for speakers of English as "main language", according to Federal Statistical Office, Neuchâtel 2008[27] Source for number of non-native English speakers is 1999 publication by Prof. François Grin cited here: http://switzerland.isyours.com/e/countries/uk/language.html
 Morocco 14 32,770,900 4,587,926 4,587,926 Source: Euromonitor International report 2011
 Norway 90 5,136,700 4,500,000 4,500,000 Source: http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2014/03/norwegian-english-fusion-language/[unreliable source]
 Republic of Ireland 98.37 93.21 4,422,100 4,350,000 4,122,100 237,900 Source: Eurobarometer report 2006; Central Statistics Office [4]; Travbla [28]
 Singapore 80 21.62 5,076,700 4,822,865 1,097,443 253,835 Source: 2010 Census. Second language speaker figure only includes those literate in English aged 15 or more and does not include third language proficiency. Singapore Census of Population, 2010, Advance Data Release No.1, "Demographic Characteristics, Education, Language and Religion"; Census of Population 2010, Table 47 "Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Age Group and Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home"
 Ghana 66.67 27,000,000 18,000,000 18,000,000 Source: 2010 Ghanaian Census[29]
 Tanzania 9.89 40,454,000 4,000,000 4,000,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109.
 New Zealand 97.82 85.93 4,275,100 3,673,623 3,673,623 There were 4,027,947 responses to 2006 Census: Language spoken. 3,673,679 gave English as a response, 81,936 had no English but another language. The balance of 272,382 were; no language (too young) 75,195, no response 196,221, response unidentifiable 588, response outside scope 378. Hence it is most meaningful to express the English-speaking per cent without including the figures for these 272,382. This gives 97.8% English-speaking, 2.2% non-English-speaking (3,673,679 and 81,936 divided by 3,755,565)
Crystal (2003), p. 109, gives figures of 3,700,000 native speakers and 150,000 second language speakers.
 Finland 70 5,410,000 3,800,000 3,800,000 Source: Eurobarometer report 2012
 Portugal 27 10,623,000 2,900,000 2,900,000 Source: Eurobarometer report 2012
 Papua New Guinea 49.76 2.37 6,331,000 3,150,000 150,000 3,000,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109. Note this includes speakers of an English creole.
 Liberia 82.67 16 3,750,000 3,100,000 600,000 2,500,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109. Note this includes speakers of an English creole.
 Jordan 45 6,598,000 2,969,370 2,969,370 Source: Euromonitor International report (2011)
 Jamaica 97.64 95.8 2,714,000 2,650,000 2,600,000 50,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109. Note this includes speakers of an English creole.
 Algeria 7 35,954,000 2,516,780 2,516,780 Source: Euromonitor International report (2011)
 Uganda 8.09 30,884,000 2,500,000 2,500,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109.
 Hong Kong 46.07 3.5 6,808,433 3,136,784 238,288 2,898,496 According to 2011 population census, Hong Kong has approximately 3.1 million speakers, of whom 238,288 regard English as their "usual" language.[30]
 Czech Republic 27 10,562,214 2,850,000 2,850,000 Source: Eurobarometer report 2012
 Argentina 6.52 42,192,500 2,752,681 Source:.[31] Percentage of people who state to have a high level of English. Another 19.49% and 16.23% of people said they had an intermediate and low level, respectively, of English.
 Yemen 9 24,800,000 2,232,000 2,232,000 Source: Euromonitor International report 2011
 Croatia 49 4,555,000 2,200,000 2,200,000 Source: Eurobarometer report 2006
 Colombia 4.22 47,661,368 2,012,950 75,600 1,937,350 Total was estimated by multiplying projected population for 2014 (DANE) by percentage of Colombian population that speaks English 4.09%[32] then 63,600 was added to that figure which is the total of American and British residents. Figures for native speakers are as follows: 60,000 U.S. citizens that reside in Colombia[33] 12,000 are Colombian Raizal from San Andrés and Isla de Providencia where they speak San Andrés–Providencia Creole[34] 3,600 British expatriates[35]
 Hungary 20 9,982,000 2,000,000 2,000,000 Source: Eurobarometer report 2012
 Puerto Rico 48.61 3,991,000 1,940,000 100,000 1,840,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109.
 Sri Lanka 9.9 19,299,000 1,910,000 10,000 1,900,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109.
 Zambia 16.02 11,922,000 1,910,000 110,000 1,800,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109.
 Bulgaria 25 7,640,238 1,900,000 2,605 1,902,605 Source: Eurobarometer report 2012 and 2011 Census[36]
 Kazakhstan 15.4 12,156,705 1,874,583 602 1,873,981 Number of those who understand spoken English, from these 1.9 million: 311,435 (2.6%/16.6%) can only read, 931,444 (7.7%/49.6%) can read and write in English. The number of native speakers is the sum of Americans and Englishmen "by nationality". (Census 2009)
 Lebanon 40 4,265,600 1,706,000 1,706,000 Source: Euromonitor International report (2011)
 Chile 9.53 16,634,603 1,585,027 Source: 2012 Census.[37]
 Rwanda 15 10,137,400 1,520,610 1,520,610 Source: Euromonitor International report 2009
 Slovakia 26 5,397,036 1,400,000 1,400,000 Source: Eurobarometer report 2012
 Trinidad and Tobago 87.74 1,305,000 1,145,000 1,145,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109. Note this includes speakers of an English creole.
 Slovenia 59 2,050,000 1,210,000 1,210,000 Source: Eurobarometer report 2012
 Lithuania 38 3,053,800 1,160,000 1,160,000 Source: Eurobarometer report 2012
 Latvia 46 2,070,371 950,000 950,000 Source: Eurobarometer report 2012
 Guyana 90.55 751,000 680,000 650,000 30,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109. Note this includes speakers of an English creole.
 Botswana 38.42 1,639,833 630,000 630,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109.
 Estonia 50 1,294,236 650,000 650,000 Source: Eurobarometer report 2012
 Cyprus 73 839,000 610,000 610,000 Source: Eurobarometer report 2012
 Malawi 3.88 13,931,831 540,209 209 540,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109 and Kayambizinthu.[38]
 Lesotho 27.86 1,795,000 500,000 500,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109.
 Suriname 87.09 470,784 410,000 260,000 150,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109. Note this includes speakers of an English creole.
 Malta 89 453,000 400,000 unknown 352,000 Source: Eurobarometer report 2012
 Namibia 17.24 1,820,916 314,000 14,000 300,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109.
 Luxembourg 56 509,000 290,000 290,000 Source: Eurobarometer report 2012
 Bahamas 87.13 330,549 288,000 260,000 28,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109. Note this includes speakers of an English creole.
 Barbados 98.57 279,000 275,000 262,000 13,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109. Note this includes speakers of an English creole.
 Belize 81.65 301,270 246,000 190,000 56,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109. Note this includes speakers of an English creole.
 Madagascar 18 23,042,300 4,147,614 4,147,614 The main languages are French and Malagasy.[citation needed]
 Mauritius 15.97 1,264,866 202,000 2,000 200,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109.
 Vanuatu 83.55 215,446 180,000 60,000 120,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109. Note this includes speakers of an English creole.
 Fiji 20.62 853,445 176,000 6,000 170,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109.
 Solomon Islands 31.68 552,438 175,000 10,000 165,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109. Note this includes speakers of an English creole.
 Guam 91.09 173,456 158,000 58,000 100,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109.
 Brunei 39.07 381,371 144,000 10,000 134,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109.
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 95 120,000 114,000 114,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109. Note this includes speakers of an English creole.
 U.S. Virgin Islands 95.97 108,448 113,000 98,000 15,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109. Note this includes speakers of an English creole.
 Grenada 90.91 110,000 100,000 100,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109. Note this includes speakers of an English creole.
 Samoa 49.86 188,540 94,000 1,000 93,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109.
 Isle of Man 99.93 80,058 80,000 80,000
 Bhutan 11.4 658,000 75,000 75,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109.
 Saint Lucia 43.03 165,000 71,000 31,000 40,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109. Note this includes speakers of an English creole.
 Northern Mariana Islands 83.33 84,000 70,000 5,000 65,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109. Note this includes speakers of an English creole.
 Antigua and Barbuda 80 85,000 68,000 66,000 2,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109. Note this includes speakers of an English creole.
 American Samoa 80.1 57,345 45,933 1,791 44,142 Source: The World Factbook - American Samoa
 Federated States of Micronesia 57.66 111,000 64,000 4,000 60,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109.
 Bermuda 96.92 65,000 63,000 63,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109.
 Dominica 94.03 67,000 63,000 3,000 60,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109. Note this includes speakers of an English creole.
 Marshall Islands 98.33 59,000 60,000 60,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109.
 Swaziland 4.38 1,141,000 50,000 50,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109.
 Aruba 42.31 104,000 44,000 9,000 35,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109.
 The Gambia 2.34 1,709,000 40,000 40,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109. Note this includes speakers of an English creole.
 Saint Kitts and Nevis 78 50,000 39,000 39,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109. Note this includes speakers of an English creole.
 Cayman Islands 76.6 47,000 36,000 36,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109. Note this includes speakers of an English creole.
 Seychelles 37.93 87,000 33,000 3,000 30,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109.
 Gibraltar 100 28,875 28,875 28,000 875 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109.
 Tonga 30 100,000 30,000 30,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109.
 Kiribati 24.21 95,000 23,000 23,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109.
 British Virgin Islands 86.96 23,000 20,000 20,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109. Note this includes speakers of an English creole.
 Palau 92.5 20,000 18,500 500 18,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109.
 Andorra 22 81,222 17,869 17,869 Source Census: Linguistic knowledge 2004.
 Anguilla 92.31 13,000 12,000 12,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109.
 Nauru 100 10,300 10,300 800 9,500 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109. English is spoken as the language of government and commerce.
 Cook Islands 19.8 20,200 4,000 1,000 3,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109.
 Montserrat 67.8 5,900 4,000 4,000 Source: Crystal (2003), p. 109. Note this includes speakers of an English creole.
  • European Union The European Union is a supranational union composed of 28 member states. The combined total English-speaking population (2012) is 256,876,220[39] (out of a total population of 500,000,000,[40] i.e. 51%) including 65,478,252 native speakers and 191,397,968 non-native speakers, and would be ranked 2nd if it were included. English native speakers amount to 13% of the whole Union population, while the percentage of people that speak English "well enough in order to be able to have a conversation", either as first (32%), second (11%) or third (3%) foreign language, was 38%.
  • When taken from this list and added together, the total number of English speakers in the world adds up to around 1,200,000,000. Likewise, the total number of native English speakers adds up to around 350,000,000. This implies that there are approximately 850,000,000 people who speak English as an additional language.


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Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Statistics on second language speakers are inevitably not precise; partly because there is no widely agreed definition of second language speakers – there is no differentiation between countries where English is the lingua franca and those where it is not.
  2. ^ "Language Use in the United States: 2007" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 9 October 2011. 
  3. ^ Census of India's Indian Census, Issue 25, 2003, pp 8–10, (Feature: Languages of West Bengal in Census and Surveys, Bilingualism and Trilingualism).
  4. ^ FAMILY-WISE GROUPING OF THE 122 SCHEDULED AND NON-SCHEDULED LANGUAGES – 2001 Census of India
  5. ^ Tropf, Herbert S. 2004. India and its Languages. Siemens AG, Munich
  6. ^ For a credible source pertaining to this data, please see: The Times of India], [1]. Their article explains the difference between the 350 million number mentioned in a previous version of this Wikipedia article and the current number:
  7. ^ An analysis of the 2001 Census of India, published in 2010, concluded that approximately 86 million Indians reported English as their second language, and another 39 million reported it as their third language. No data was available whether these individuals were English speakers or users.
  8. ^ "HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA" (PDF). OUP. 2005. 
  9. ^ "The Benefits of the English Language for Individuals and Societies: Quantitative Indicators from Cameroon, Nigeria, Rwanda, Bangladesh and Pakistan" (PDF). Teachingenglish.org.uk. Retrieved 2016-04-08. 
  10. ^ "2011 Census: Quick Statistics for England and Wales, March 2011". Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 30 January 2013. 
  11. ^ Before mistakenly correcting the percentage again, please note that there are fewer people aged 5 years or more in any country than there are people in that country, because some people are toddlers or infants. In other words, no, the numbers will not automatically add up. 63.71% is what the cited source, text above Figure 7, a report from the 2000 census, really says. This multiplied by the 2010 census's total population over 5 produces the number in the chart. The 2010 number comes from Philippines in Figures, 2013, Chapter 5, Demography, table 5.1 or 5.6
  12. ^ From mid-2009 to late 2013 this entry overstated the number of native speakers by roughly 100fold, and inflated the number of total speakers, on the alleged basis of material in "Philippines". Ethnologue. 1999-02-19. Retrieved 2013-10-16. . In fact, Ethnologue as of 24th December 2013 simply repeats the number of native speakers, 20,000, reported in Crystal 2003, on the basis of an old (pre-1995) census, and does not address total speakers at all. This attempt to correct these errors in turn perpetrates both error and original research, by applying the old percentages listed above, 63.71% of people over 5 as total speakers in 2000, and .04% of people as native speakers in 1995, to the 2010 totals from Philippines in Figures, 2013, Chapter 5, Demography, tables 5.1 and 5.6. Andrew Gonzalez passed away in 2006; someone else's attention to the 2010 census figures, which appear not to be online and may not have been printed yet in adequate detail, is needed to produce reliable, more or less current, numbers.
  13. ^ 2000 Census of population and Housing, Educational Characteristics of the Filipinos https://psa.gov.ph/old/data/sectordata/sr05153tx.html
  14. ^ The Benefits of the English Language for Individuals and Societies: Quantitative Indicators from Cameroon, Nigeria, Rwanda, Bangladesh and Pakistan, https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/Euromonitor%20Report%20A4.pdf
  15. ^ "The Benefits of the English Language for Individuals and Societies: Quantitative Indicators from Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia and Yemen" (PDF). Britishcouncil.org. Retrieved 2016-04-08. 
  16. ^ [2][dead link]
  17. ^ Human Capital in Poland in 2014, figure 15,52
  18. ^ Demographis Yearbook of Poland: 2014, Table 1, 32,44,190,
  19. ^ Jian Yang (April 2006). "Learners and users of English in China". English Today 22 (2): 3–10. doi:10.1017/S0266078406002021. . Quote: "What this suggests, it seems, is that Yan’s (2004) ten million may after all be a more informed estimate of the actual regular users of English in China." (page 9)"
  20. ^ 100million is Back of Envelope Calculation. Learning English in compulsory in China, and 8% of population goes to University, so approximately 100 million are competent in English, and beyond learners
  21. ^ "EF English Proficiency Index - A comprehensive ranking of countries by English skills". Ef.com. Retrieved 2016-04-08. 
  22. ^ Languages of Israel, Ethnologue.com
  23. ^ Multilingualism in Israel, Bar-Ilan University – Faculty of Humanities : Language Policy Research Center.
  24. ^ "ERIC - English Language Teaching Profile: Israel., 1976-Dec". Eric.ed.gov. Retrieved 2016-04-08. 
  25. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 October 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014. 
  26. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 24 August 2007. Retrieved 24 October 2007. 
  27. ^ Resident population according to main language, Federal Statistical Office, Neuchâtel 2008
  28. ^ "The most complete list of English schools and courses in Ireland". Travbla.com. Retrieved 2016-04-08. 
  29. ^ "2010 Population & Housing Census" (PDF). Statsghana.gov.gh. Retrieved 2016-04-08. 
  30. ^ "Population Aged 5 and Over by Place of Birth, Usual Language and Ability to Speak Other Language/Dialect, 2011 (A123)". Census2011.gov.hk. Retrieved 2016-04-08. 
  31. ^ "Sociedad :: Los idiomas de los argentinos" (in Spanish). Página/12. Retrieved 2013-10-16. 
  32. ^ "¿Qué porcentaje de la población colombiana habla inglés?". Colombiestad.gov.co. 2006-05-01. Retrieved 2016-04-08. 
  33. ^ [3][dead link]
  34. ^ "Islander Creole English". Ethnologue. 
  35. ^ "Special Reports | Brits Abroad". BBC News. Retrieved 2016-04-08. 
  36. ^ "2011 census of Bulgaria" (PDF) (in Bulgarian). National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria. p. 22. Retrieved 21 July 2011. 
  37. ^ "Síntesis de resultados Censo 2012" (PDF) (in Spanish). Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas. Retrieved 2 April 2013. 
  38. ^ Edrinnie Kayambizinthu (1998). "The Language Planning Situation in Malawi" (PDF). Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 19 (5&6): 369. doi:10.1080/01434639808666363. 
  39. ^ "European and their languages 2012" (PDF). Eurobarometer. Retrieved 2 January 2013. 
  40. ^ "Population at 1 January". Eurostat. Retrieved 2 January 2013. 

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