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The United States has about 280 million native speakers of English; India has about 300 million speakers of English as a second language.

Exact numbers are difficult to produce for this, but China is estimated to be equal or ahead of India in this numbers game. For sure, by looking at rate of increase and number of learners, in a year or two, China will definitely have more English speakers than any other country. Of course, nearly all will be as second language.

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