FACTOID # 1: Houses in English-speaking countries have the most rooms.
 
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Language Statistics > Skills of EU citizens > Other than mother tongue > English (most recent) by country

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Rank   Countries  Amount 
# 1   Sweden: 89 %  
# 2   Malta: 88 %  
# 3   Netherlands: 87 %  
# 4   Denmark: 86 %  
# 5   Cyprus: 76 %  
# 6   Finland: 63 %  
# 7   Luxembourg: 60 %  
# 8   Belgium: 59 %  
# 9   Austria: 58 %  
# 10   Slovenia: 57 %  
# 11   Germany: 56 %  
# 12   Croatia: 49 %  
# 13   Greece: 48 %  
# 14   Estonia: 46 %  
# 15   Lithuania: 39 %  
# 16   France: 36 %  
= 17   Portugal: 32 %  
= 17   Latvia: 32 %  
= 17   Slovakia: 32 %  
= 20   Italy: 29 %  
= 20   Poland: 29 %  
= 20   Romania: 29 %  
# 23   Spain: 27 %  
# 24   Czech Republic: 24 %  
= 25   Bulgaria: 23 %  
= 25   Hungary: 23 %  
# 27   Turkey: 17 %  
# 28   United Kingdom: 7 %  
# 29   Ireland: 5 %  
Weighted average: 45.0 %   



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SOURCE: Wikipedia: Languages of the European Union

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COMMENTARY     

Thomas
30th August 2009
While an interesting statistic, it only assesses the quantity of people in percentage that speak "some English", but doesn't say anything about the quality of the spoken English, or willingness to use it, for that mattter.

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