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Revision as of 14:13, 19 July 2006
This article's factual accuracy is disputed. |
This is a list of countries of the world sorted by the total English-speaking population in that country. This includes both native speakers and second language speakers of English. Statistics on second language speakers are usually imprecise, in part because there is no widely agreed definition of second language speakers, so these figures should be treated with caution.
Rank | Country | Total | First language | As an Additional language | National language | Official languages | Comment |
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1 | USA | 251,388,301 | 215,423,557 | 35,964,744 | * | Source: US Census 2000, Report QT-P17 Figure for second language speakers are respondents who reported they do not speak english at home but know it "very well" or "well" | |
2 | China | 200,000,000– 300,000,000 |
(?) | 200,000,000– 300,000,000 |
Figures are for English users, not speakers. Source: Yong Zhao (1995). "English in China". World Englishes. 14 (3): 377–390. {{cite journal}} : Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help) Hong Kong contributes an additional 2.5 million speakers (1996 by-census[1]).
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3 | India | 90,221,085 | 178,598 | 90,042,487 | * | Source: 1991 Census of India. Number with English as a mother tongue: [2] Number with mother tongue among the 18 languages listed in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India who were multilingual in English: [3] Native speakers of these 18 languages account for over 96% of all speakers of any language in India. Figures exclude Jammu and Kashmir, and another 33 villages with a total population of 16,052 people. | |
4 | United Kingdom | 55,000,000 | 55,000,000 | (?) | * | Source: Ethnologue. Date given is 1984. Note that the 2003 U.K. Labour Force Survey estimated that, out of some 46 million residents aged 16 or more, over 2 million spoke another language at home (besides English, Welsh, Ulster Scots and Gaelic).[4] A substantial number of these people are second language English speakers. | |
5 | Philippines | 43,961,539 | 32,802 | 43,928,737 | * | 52% of the population said they could speak English as a second language | |
6 | Canada | 25,246,220 | 20,014,645 | * | Source: 2001 Census.[5] The figure shown in the first language English speakers column is actually the number of English speakers who do not speak French. This does not include any of the 5 million people who spoke both English and French, some of whom would speak English as a first language, so it is probably too low. | ||
7 | Australia | 17,357,833 | 15,013,965 | 2,343,868 | * | Source: 2001 Census.[6] The figure shown in the first language English speakers column is actually the number of Australian residents who speak English at home. The additional language column shows the number of other residents who claim to speak English "well" or "very well". Another 5% of residents did not state their home language or English proficiency. | |
8 | Ireland | 4,130,000 | 4,050,000 | 80,000 | * | ||
9 | South Africa | 3,673,203 | 3,673,203 | (?) | * | 2001 Census: Census in Brief, page 15 (Table 2.5) | |
10 | New Zealand | 3,425,301 | >2,868,000 | (?) | * | 2001 Census: National Summary, Tables 12 and 15 | |
11 | Singapore | 3,369,261 | 227,000 | 3,142,261 | * | Second-language users (literate in English) are 71% of population | |
12 | Tanzania | 1,500,000 | 1,500,000 | * | |||
13 | Ghana | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | * | |||
14 | Nigeria | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | * | This figure has been criticized as appearing too small.Wolf (2001) It also does not include over 40 million speakers of Nigerian Pidgin English. | ||
15 | Uganda | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | * | |||
16 | Puerto Rico | 458,371 | 82,000 | 376,371 | * | ||
17 | Zimbabwe | 375,490 | 375,490 | * | |||
18 | Malta | 246,157 | (?) | (?) | * | Source: Maltese Census 1995. [7][8] respondents aged 10 or more. | |
19 | Ethiopia | 171,712 | 1,986 | 169,726 | * | ||
20 | Israel | 100,000 | 100,000 | ||||
21 | Sri Lanka | 74,170 | 74,170 | ||||
22 | Liberia | 69,000 | 69,000 | * | |||
23 | Bermuda | 58,800 | 58,800 | * | |||
24 | Belize | 55,998 | 55,998 | * | |||
25 | Papua New Guinea | 50,000 | 50,000 | * | |||
26 | Bahamas | 49,331 | 49,331 | * | |||
27 | Zambia | 41,434 | 41,434 | * | |||
28 | Honduras | 31,500 | 31,500 | ||||
29 | Guam | 28,800 | 28,800 | * | |||
30 | Cayman Islands | 20,000 | 20,000 | * | |||
31 | Fiji | 19,857 | 4,929 | 14,928 | * | ||
32 | American Samoa | 16,298 | 1,248 | 15,050 | * | ||
33 | Malawi | 16,000 | 16,000 | * | |||
34 | Barbados | 13,000 | 13,000 | * | |||
35 | Namibia | 10,941 | 10,941 | * | |||
36 | Dominica | 10,000 | 10,000 | * | |||
37 | U.S. Virgin Islands | 8,414 | 8,414 | * | |||
38 | Brunei | 8,000 | 8,000 | * | |||
39 | Dominican Republic | 8,000 | 8,000 | ||||
40 | Nauru | 7,254 | 714 | 6,540 | * | ||
41 | Saint Helena | 5,400 | 5,400 | * | |||
42 | Micronesia | 5,341 | 5,341 | * | |||
43 | British Indian Ocean Territory | 3,500 | 3,500 | * | |||
44 | Gibraltar | 3,300 | 3,300 | * | |||
45 | Lebanon | 3,300 | 3,300 | ||||
46 | Aruba | 3,000 | 3,000 | ||||
47 | Mauritius | 3,000 | 3,000 | * | |||
48 | Trinidad and Tobago | 2,600 | 2,600 | * | |||
49 | Malay Peninsula | 2,400 | 2,400 | ||||
50 | Niue | 2,160 | 78 | 2,082 | * | ||
51 | British Virgin Islands | 2,000 | 2,000 | * | |||
52 | Falkland Islands | 1,991 | 1,991 | * | |||
53 | Vanuatu | 1,900 | 1,900 | * | |||
54 | Netherlands Antilles | 1,800 | 1,800 | ||||
55 | Norfolk Island | 1,678 | 1,678 | * | |||
56 | Seychelles | 1,601 | 1,601 | * | |||
57 | Saint Lucia | 1,600 | 1,600 | * | |||
58 | Gambia | 1,000 | 1,000 | * | |||
59 | Anguilla | 946 | 946 | * | |||
60 | Turks and Caicos Islands | 920 | 920 | * | |||
61 | Grenada | 750 | 750 | * | |||
62 | Cook Islands | 683 | 683 | * | |||
63 | Kiribati | 492 | 492 | * | |||
64 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 400 | 400 | * | |||
65 | Rwanda | 300 | 300 | * | |||
66 | Guadeloupe | 200 | 200 | ||||
67 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 200 | 200 | * | |||
68 | Samoa | 200 | 200 | * | |||
69 | Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 188 | 188 | ||||
70 | Montserrat | 100 | 100 | * | |||
71 | Pitcairn | 46 | 46 | * | |||
72 | Tokelau | 40 | 40 | * | |||
? | European Union | 226,000,000 | 58,000,000 | 168,000,000 | * | 2006 Eurobarometer survey. Covered EU citizens aged 15 years or more. | |
? | Germany | 36,000,000 | 272,504 | 36,000,000 | (?) | Native speakers: Statistisches Bundesamt (cited here). Non-native speakers: 2006 Eurobarometer survey. | |
? | France | (?) | (?) | 16,000,000 | (?) | 2006 Eurobarometer survey. | |
? | Italy | (?) | (?) | 14,000,000 | (?) | 2006 Eurobarometer survey. | |
? | Netherlands | (?) | (?) | 12,000,000 | (?) | 2006 Eurobarometer survey. | |
? | Spain | (?) | (?) | 10,000,000 | (?) | 2006 Eurobarometer survey. | |
? | Poland | (?) | (?) | 9,000,000 | (?) | 2006 Eurobarometer survey. | |
? | Indonesia | (?) | (?) | (?) | |||
? | Thailand | (?) | (?) | (?) | |||
? | Russia | (?) | (?) | (?) | |||
? | Japan | (?) | (?) | (?) | |||
? | Korea | (?) | (?) | (?) | |||
? | Taiwan | (?) | (?) | (?) | |||
(?) | Antigua and Barbuda | (?) | (?) | * | |||
(?) | Botswana | (?) | (?) | * | |||
(?) | Cameroon | (?) | (?) | * | |||
(?) | Eritrea | (?) | (?) | * | |||
(?) | Guyana | (?) | (?) | * | |||
(?) | Jamaica | (?) | (?) | * | |||
(?) | Kenya | (?) | (?) | * | Mainly second-language speakers in Kenya. | ||
(?) | Lesotho | (?) | (?) | * | |||
(?) | Northern Mariana Islands | (?) | (?) | * | |||
(?) | Pakistan | (?) | (?) | * | Mainly second-language speakers in Pakistan. | ||
(?) | Palau | (?) | (?) | * | |||
(?) | Sierra Leone | (?) | (?) | * | |||
(?) | Solomon Islands | (?) | (?) | * | |||
(?) | Somalia | (?) | (?) | * | |||
(?) | Swaziland | (?) | (?) | * | |||
(?) | Tonga | (?) | (?) | * | |||
(?) | Cambodia | (?) | (?) | Replacing French as second language, especially in Phnom Penh. Also used for mobile phone texting | |||
(?) | Marshall Islands | (?) | (?) | * |
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. |
Sources
- Raymond G. Gordon, Jr. (ed.), ed. (2005). "English". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (Fifteenth edition ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. Retrieved 2006-03-17.
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