The following is a list of
English-speaking population
by country, including information on both
native speaker
Native Speaker may refer to:
* ''Native Speaker'' (novel), a 1995 novel by Chang-Rae Lee
* ''Native Speaker'' (album), a 2011 album by Canadian band Braids
* Native speaker, a person using their first language or mother tongue
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s and
second-language
A person's second language, or L2, is a language that is not the native language (first language or L1) of the speaker, but is learned later. A second language may be a neighbouring language, another language of the speaker's home country, or a fo ...
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 de ...
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
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English medium education
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English-speaking world
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List of countries where English is an official language
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World Englishes
World Englishes is a term for emerging localised or indigenised varieties of English, especially varieties that have developed in territories influenced by the United Kingdom or the United States. The study of World Englishes consists of identi ...
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