English speakers (most recent) by country

	United States	58.5%
	India	20.9%
	United Kingdom	11.5%
	Canada	3.6%
	Australia	3.3%
	South Africa	0.7%
	New Zealand	0.7%
	Ireland	0.5%
	Zimbabwe	0.1%
	Singapore	0%
	Israel	0%
	Sri Lanka	0%
	Puerto Rico	0%
	Liberia	0%
	Bermuda	0%
	Papua New Guinea	0%
	Zambia	0%
	Philippines	0%
	Guam	0%
	Malawi	0%

Rank	Countries	Amount
# 1	United States:	280,000,000
# 2	India:	100,000,000
# 3	United Kingdom:	55,000,000
# 4	Canada:	17,100,000
# 5	Australia:	15,682,000
# 6	South Africa:	3,500,000
# 7	New Zealand:	3,213,000
# 8	Ireland:	2,600,000
# 9	Zimbabwe:	375,490
# 10	Singapore:	227,000
# 11	Israel:	100,000
# 12	Sri Lanka:	97,000
# 13	Puerto Rico:	82,000
# 14	Liberia:	69,000
# 15	Bermuda:	58,800
# 16	Papua New Guinea:	50,000
# 17	Zambia:	41,434
# 18	Philippines:	32,802
# 19	Guam:	28,800
# 20	Malawi:	16,000
# 21	Barbados:	13,000
# 22	Namibia:	10,941
# 23	Cayman Islands:	9,200
# 24	Honduras:	9,000
# 25	Virgin Islands:	8,414
# 26	Brunei:	8,000
# 27	Fiji:	4,929
# 28	Micronesia, Federated States of:	3,540
# 29	Gibraltar:	3,300
# 30	Mauritius:	3,000
# 31	Malta:	2,400
# 32	Midway Islands:	2,256
# 33	British Virgin Islands:	2,000
# 34	Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas):	1,991
# 35	Ethiopia:	1,986
# 36	Vanuatu:	1,900
# 37	Wake Island:	1,730
# 38	Norfolk Island:	1,678
# 39	Seychelles:	1,601
# 40	American Samoa:	1,248
# 41	Cook Islands:	683
# 42	Nauru:	564
# 43	Kiribati:	338
# 44	Saint Pierre and Miquelon:	188
= 45	Kenya:	0
= 45	Tanzania:	0
= 45	Nigeria:	0
= 45	Niue:	0
= 45	Belize:	0
= 45	Rwanda:	0
= 45	Ghana:	0
= 45	Uganda:	0
	Total:	478,367,213
	Weighted average:	9,199,369.5

SOURCE: Ethnologue

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COMMENTARY

Jimmy Bacon 7th May 2009	Why isn't Jamaica on the English sparking list?
E Tan 1st December 2005	This data seems inaccurate/incomplete - e.g. there is no information on the number of English speakers in Malaysia, which one estimate has at about 10% of the population or about 2.5 million
blouis@clemson.edu 22nd November 2005	Why is the number of English speakers in India left out of your statistics? I would like to know the current number please.
Ian Graham Staff Editor 12th April 2005	If you combine the number of mother tongue speakers (32,802) and second-language speakers of English (52 percent of the population) given here for the Philippines, you get a total of about 44 million English speakers in the country, more than all but the top two countries on this list. There may be more English speakers than that in the Philippines, but they may not have identified theie mother tongue as English in the census, which could explain why the number of English speakers given for the Philippines is so low.
Suchita Vemuri Staff Editor 5th March 2005	Hi Leslie -- you're right! The problem, however, lies partly with the census in India, which has changing formats and currently does not allow reporting for more than two languages! Since India has more than 300 spoken languages and most people would report one of these as the "mother tongue" (or the first language, even if it is not commonly spoken at home), and then report the national language, Hindi, as the second language, however comfortable they may be with English, it will not be reported in the census figures. In the 1981 census of India, 0.3% of the population said English was their first language. English daily newspapers in India have a irculation of more than 3 million, with an average 5 million readers to every copy, and all schools in urban centers and many in rural areas teach English.

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