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Language Stats: compare key data on British Virgin Islands & United Kingdom

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  • Languages: A rank ordering of languages starting with the largest and sometimes includes the percent of total population speaking that language.
  • Linguistic diversity index: LDI.
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STAT British Virgin Islands United Kingdom HISTORY
Languages English (official) English, Welsh (about 26% of the population of Wales), Scottish form of Gaelic (about 60,000 in Scotland)
Linguistic diversity index 0.167
Ranked 144th. 20% more than United Kingdom 		0.139
Ranked 152nd.

SOURCES: CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; Wikipedia: Linguistic diversity index (Rankings by country) (UNESCO World Report – Investing in Cultural Diversity and Intercultural Dialogue)

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  • English is the official language in over 20 countries. However, it's spoken in 85.

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