I'm not aware of any statistics on this. In any case, there would probably be disagreement about the definition of 'fluent' and possibly of 'British', too.
German is in sharp decline as a school subject in Britain - especially above GCSE (age 16).
It would be most unusual for a German not to be able to speak German. I therefore answer 99.99% of Germans speak German. The reasoning :- there is a very small percentage of people who have speech impediments that rends it impossible for them to speak at all.
We pronounce it "België" 'cause we speak Dutch. Or La Belgique because we also speak French Or Belgien because we also speak German
The official language of people in Belgium is Dutch. People also speak the French and German languages throughout the country.
People from Belgium speak Flemish. People from the northern part of Belgium speak Flemish ( a Dutch dialect), people in the south speak French.One of the languages spoken in Belgium.
People primarily speak German in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Luxembourg. It is also spoken in parts of Belgium, Italy, and other European countries.
German is the least spoken official language in Belgium, spoken natively by less than 1% of the population. German is spoken in the east of Belgium.
Knobody knows the EXACT number/percentage of people who speak German. The number changes every minute! The numbers of people change so the number of people speaking German change too! If a person who speaks German passes away, then there is one LESS person speaking German. If someone learns German, then there is one MORE person speaking German!So there it is, there is NOT an exact number of people who speak German!From Aunt Sidney! x
In Belgium, an estimated 0.6% of the population speaks German as their primary language, primarily in the eastern part of the country along the border with Germany.
40% speaks french as mother language. 60% dutch and a small amounth of people speak German
French and German are both official languages in Switzerland (along with Italian), Belgium (along with Dutch) and Luxembourg (along with Luxembourgish). But in most countries in Western Europe, or the world for that matter, there are people who speak French and people who speak German (either in a large population or small).
They also speak flemish. The country has been under various owners, French, German and Dutch I think. Some of the people are Flaamse and some Walloons.
Since there are about 100 million people speaking German as first language, it is about 1.5 % of the world's population. Including the people speaking German as second language make it double.