It is estimated that almost 30% of humans can speak English (over two billion). English is the most spoken language on the planet, counting first, second, third, etc. language speakers. It is the official language of over 50 countries and it is a language of business and marketing world wide.
on 20080706, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language#Geographical_distribution
, there are 375 Million native speakers. current world population is about 6.7 billion
. that's 5.5%.
depending on how you count second language proficiency, possibly 1.8 billion people speak English, or 27%.
Roughly 20% of the world's population speaks English as either a first or second language.
Roughly 500,000,000 people speak English as a native language. Since there are about 7,000,000,000 humans on Earth, about 7% of people's native language is English.
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Approximately 12% of the Indonesian population is estimated to speak English. English is not widely spoken across the country as the official language is Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia).
Roughly 3-5% of the population of Brazil speak Spanish fluently, primarily in border regions with Spanish-speaking countries such as Argentina and Uruguay. The majority of Brazilians speak Portuguese as their first language.
As a mother language about 70 million speak Italian As a Cultural language about 110 million speak Italian Giving a total of 180 million, with a world population of 6,700,000,000 This comes out at about 2.7% of the worlds population. More information is available on the link below
An estimated 5.7 billion to 6.1 billion people do not speak any English at all.
English is the third most popular language in the world, after Mandarin and Spanish. English is spoken by 5.43 percent of the worlds population, so therefore 94.57 percent of the worlds population speak no English.
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Approximately 4.2% of the British population speak English as a second language.
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In the United States, about 21% of the population speaks a language other than English at home. This includes both individuals who are bilingual and those who primarily speak a language other than English.
English is fluently spoken by about 10% of the population in Sri Lanka.
Approximately 39% of French people can speak English, according to a survey conducted by the European Union.
Approximately 5.5% of the world's population speak English as their first language.
Approximately 12% of the Indonesian population is estimated to speak English. English is not widely spoken across the country as the official language is Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia).
Approximately 10% of the population in Chile speaks English. English proficiency levels tend to be higher in urban areas and among younger generations.
The estimated number of people in the world that speak English fluently is about 30 percent of the population. If the world's population is about 7,264,712,400 people. This would mean that roughly 2,179,413,720 people in the world currently speak English fluently.