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This is a hard question to answer because of the following reasons:
- People speak English as a second language are also registered in the percentage of people who speak English
- No organisations collecting the census of the populations of English speakers globally
However, some countries have run surveys in their individual countries to ask their citizens of the language they speak. Therefore, we can only know the percentage of English speakers of the individual country rather than the global percentage.
Note: Some people speak English as native language and for some, it is a second language.
The results are:
- 80%-100% (Majority) of people from USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Israel, Lebanon, Singapore, Jamaica, Guyana, Liberia and Sierra Leon speak English either as their native language or their second language.
- 60%-80% of people from Finland, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Cyprus can speak English.
- 40%-60% of people from Belgium, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Greece, Macedonia, Estonia, Cameroon, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Puerto Rico can speak English.
- 20%-40% of people from Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, South Africa and Malaysia can speak English.
- Less than 20% of people from the rest of the countries individually can speak English.
Billy Hagenes
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∙ 11y agoThis is a hard question to answer because of the following reasons:
- People speak English as a second language are also registered in the percentage of people who speak English
- No organisations collecting the census of the populations of English speakers globally
However, some countries have run surveys in their individual countries to ask their citizens of the language they speak. Therefore, we can only know the percentage of English speakers of the individual country rather than the global percentage.
Note: Some people speak English as native language and for some, it is a second language.
The results are:
- 80%-100% (Majority) of people from USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Israel, Lebanon, Singapore, Jamaica, Guyana, Liberia and Sierra Leon speak English either as their native language or their second language.
- 60%-80% of people from Finland, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Cyprus can speak English.
- 40%-60% of people from Belgium, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Greece, Macedonia, Estonia, Cameroon, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Puerto Rico can speak English.
- 20%-40% of people from Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, South Africa and Malaysia can speak English.
- Less than 20% of people from the rest of the countries individually can speak English.
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What percentage speaks English in the world?
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.
Percentage of the world population speaks fluent English?
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.
What percent of world population is speaking correct English language?
Roughly 20-25% of the world's population speaks English proficiently as a first or second language. This percentage accounts for approximately 1.5 to 2 billion people worldwide.
What percent of the world speaks mandarin?
Roughly 14% of the world's population speaks Mandarin Chinese as their first language, making it the most spoken language in the world.
What percent of people in the world speak french?
Approximately 3% of the world's population speaks French as their native or second language.
What percent of the world's population speaks more than one language?
Approximately 43% of the world's population is estimated to be bilingual or multilingual.
What percent of The world don't speak English as Their first language?
As of 2018, about 96% of the world's population do not speak English as their first language.
What percentage of the world's population speaks Malayalam?
Approximately 1% of the world's population speaks Malayalam. It is predominantly spoken in the Indian state of Kerala.
What percentage of the worlds population speaks Punjabi?
Around 1.4% of the world's population speaks Punjabi as their native language.
How much of the world speak European languages as their mother tongue?
Approximately 25% of the world's population speaks a European language as their mother tongue. This includes languages such as English, Spanish, French, and German, among others.
How many more people speak Chinese than English?
About 18% of the entire population of the world speaks a form of Chinese. This includes people in China, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, the US, Malaysia, Canada, and Indonesia among others. About 27% of the world's population speaks English - either as a first or second language.
What percent of the world population speaks Spanish?
According to recent research conducted by SpanishSEO.org, the estimated worldwide Spanish Speaking population is 452,480,979 inhabitants representing 6.78 % of the global population. If there are 6 billion people in the world and approximately 380 million of them are Spanish speakers, then the percentage of Spanish speakers in the world is 6.3%
