The following is a list of
English-speaking population
by country, including information on both
native speakers and
second-language speakers.
List
* The
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been ...
is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total English-speaking population of the European Union and the United Kingdom combined (2012) is 256,876,220
(out of a total population of 500,000,000,
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 population of the EU and the UK, 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.
See also
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EF English Proficiency Index
The EF English Proficiency Index (EF EPI) attempts to rank countries by the equity of English language skills amongst those adults who took the EF test.
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English medium education
An English-medium education system is one that uses English as the primary medium of instruction—particularly where English is not the mother tongue of the students.
Initially this is associated with the expansion of English from its homeland ...
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English-speaking world
Speakers of English are also known as Anglophones, and the countries where English is natively spoken by the majority of the population are termed the ''Anglosphere''. Over two billion people speak English , making English the largest languag ...
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List of countries where English is an official language
The following is a list of countries and territories where English is an official language—that is, a language used in citizen interactions with government officials. , there were 59 sovereign states and 27 non-sovereign entities where English ...
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World Englishes
Non-English speaking populations:
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Arabophone
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Francophone
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Hispanophone
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Iberophone
Iberophone or Pan-Iberian space (''Iberofonía'' or ''espacio iberófono o panibérico'' in Spanish, ''Iberofonia'' or ''espaço iberófono ou panibérico'' in Portuguese) is a neologism used to designate the Iberian languages-speaking countri ...
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Indosphere
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Lusophone
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Persophone
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Russophone
This article details the geographical distribution of Russian-speakers. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the status of the Russian language often became a matter of controversy. Some Post-Soviet states adopted policies of derussi ...
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Sinophone
Notes
References
WizMantra Online Teachingenglish.org.uk*
Eurobarometer report – Europeans and their languages, February 2006 (pdf) Only includes EU citizens aged 15 and above.
Eurobarometer report – Europeans and their languages, June 2012 (pdf) Only includes EU citizens aged 15 and above.
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English speaking population
English as a global language