List of countries by English-speaking population (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "List of countries by English-speaking population" in English language version.

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54web.archive.org

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3ethnologue.com

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3doi.org

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2multilingual-matters.net

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2worldbank.org

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2semanticscholar.org

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2ed.gov

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2europa.eu

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1census.gov

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1babbel.com

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1hindustantimes.com

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1statista.com

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1oed.com

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1cfr.org

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1na.gov.pk

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1cia.gov

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1books.google.com

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1dawn.com

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1telegraph.co.uk

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1worldatlas.com

1,573^rd place

1,326^th place

1tribune.com.pk

595^th place

351^st place

1k-international.com

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1ons.gov.uk

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977^th place

1census.gov.ph

9,096^th place

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1psa.gov.ph

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1destatis.de

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1thelocal.fr

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1statcan.gc.ca

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1britishcouncil.org

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1abs.gov.au

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498^th place

1daily-sun.com

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4,619^th place

1autolingual.com

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1statsghana.gov.gh

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1kiis.com.ua

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1languageknowledge.eu

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1statssa.gov.za

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2,807^th place

1consulta.mx

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1inegi.gob.mx

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1ef.com

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1cudy.co

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1asiafoundation.org

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1dhsprogram.com

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1tandfonline.com

507^th place

429^th place

1moroccoworldnews.com

3,385^th place

2,538^th place

1biu.ac.il

9,276^th place

9,572^nd place

1statistik.at

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1,762^nd place

1ksh.hu

1,860^th place

3,604^th place

1viewfromprague.com

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1rosstat.gov.ru

319^th place

1,971^st place

1admin.ch

279^th place

551^st place

1isyours.com

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1thelocal.no

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1travbla.com

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1privacyshield.gov

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1statistics.gov.lk

6,041^st place

4,861^st place

1voacambodia.com

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1census2011.gov.hk

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1pagina12.com.ar

952^nd place

3,291^st place

1colombiestad.gov.co

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1bbc.co.uk

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1nsi.bg

2,651^st place

4,229^th place

1censo.cl

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1ine.gub.uy

6,400^th place

9,955^th place

1wordcheats.com

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1reykjavikrentacar.is

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1inec.go.cr

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abs.gov.au

stat.data.abs.gov.au

"Census 2016, Proficiency in Spoken English/Language by Age by Sex". Australian Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original on 16 January 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2021.

admin.ch

bfs.admin.ch

Resident population according to main language Archived 30 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Federal Statistical Office, Neuchâtel 2008

asiafoundation.org

The Asia Foundation. Afghanistan in 2018: A Survey of the Afghan People.

autolingual.com

Larsen, Mille (17 July 2020). "Poland languages". AutoLingual. Archived from the original on 29 December 2022. Retrieved 2 January 2025.

babbel.com

"How Many People Speak English, and Where is It Spoken?".

bbc.co.uk

news.bbc.co.uk

"Special Reports | Brits Abroad". BBC News. Archived from the original on 3 January 2007. Retrieved 8 April 2016.

biu.ac.il

Multilingualism in Israel Archived 30 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Bar-Ilan University – Faculty of Humanities : Language Policy Research Center.

books.google.com

Leitner, Gerhard; Hashim, Azirah; Wolf, Hans-Georg (11 January 2016). Communicating with Asia: The Future of English as a Global Language. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107062610.

britishcouncil.org

"The Benefits of the English Language for Individuals and Societies: Quantitative Indicators from Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia and Yemen" (PDF). Britishcouncil.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 May 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2016.

censo.cl

"Síntesis de resultados Censo 2012" (PDF) (in Spanish). Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas. Retrieved 2 April 2013.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

census.gov

data.census.gov

"Age by Language Spoken at Home by Ability to Speak English for the Population 5 Years and over: 2022 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 14 May 2024.

census.gov.ph

From mid-2009 to late 2013 this entry overstated the number of native speakers by roughly 100fold, and inflated the number of total speakers, on the alleged basis of material in "Philippines". Ethnologue. 19 February 1999. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 16 October 2013.. In fact, Ethnologue Archived 10 January 2022 at the Wayback Machine as of 24 December 2013 simply repeats the number of native speakers, 20,000, reported in Crystal 2003, on the basis of an old (pre-1995) census, and does not address total speakers at all. This attempt to correct these errors in turn perpetrates both error and original research, by applying the old percentages listed above, 63.71% of people over 5 as total speakers in 2000, and .04% of people as native speakers in 1995, to the 2010 totals from Philippines in Figures, 2013, Chapter 5, Demography Archived 26 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine, tables 5.1 and 5.6. Andrew Gonzalez died in 2006; someone else's attention to the 2010 census figures, which appear not to be online and may not have been printed yet in adequate detail, is needed to produce reliable, more or less current, numbers.

census2011.gov.hk

"Population Aged 5 and Over by Place of Birth, Usual Language and Ability to Speak Other Language/Dialect, 2011 (A123)". Census2011.gov.hk. Archived from the original on 3 May 2013. Retrieved 8 April 2016.

cfr.org

"Nigeria Making Its Mark on the English Language". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 19 May 2024.

cia.gov

"The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency". www.cia.gov. Archived from the original on 13 June 2007. Retrieved 30 August 2017.

colombiestad.gov.co

"¿Qué porcentaje de la población colombiana habla inglés?". Colombiestad.gov.co. 1 May 2006. Archived from the original on 8 May 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2016.

consulta.mx

Roy Campos; Ana María Hernández (January 2013). "Mexicanos Y Los Idiomas Extranjeros" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 October 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.

cudy.co

blog.cudy.co

"English Proficiency in Asia". Cudy Technologies Blog. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 26 December 2023.

daily-sun.com

Md Khaled Bin Chowdhury (9 March 2018). "Bangla Rules in All Domains of National Life". Daily Sun. Archived from the original on 25 April 2019.

dawn.com

"English — more than a subject". Dawn. Archived from the original on 26 December 2017. Retrieved 25 December 2017. The report said English was deeply penetrated into the Pakistani society as it had one of the largest English-speaking populations of the world and claimed that 49pc population (88.69 million people) could speak English.

destatis.de

"Mikrozenus 2020: Bevölkerung in Privathaushalten nach Migrationshintergrund im weiteren Sinn nach ausgewählten Geburtsstaaten". Statistisches Bundesamt. Archived from the original on 31 May 2022. Retrieved 15 October 2020.

dhsprogram.com

"Zimbabwe, Demographic and Health Survey 2010" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2022. Retrieved 21 August 2023.

doi.org

Kadenge, Maxwell (2010). "Zimbabwean English: A sociophonological exploration". South African Journal of African Languages. 30: 35–51. doi:10.1080/02572117.2010.10587334. S2CID 153066779. Archived from the original on 24 January 2022. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
Jian Yang (April 2006). "Learners and users of English in China". English Today. 22 (2): 3–10. doi:10.1017/S0266078406002021. S2CID 145247004.. Quote: "What this suggests, it seems, is that Yan’s (2004) ten million may after all be a more informed estimate of the actual regular users of English in China." (page 9)"
Edrinnie Kayambizinthu (1998). "The Language Planning Situation in Malawi" (PDF). Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 19 (5&6): 369. doi:10.1080/01434639808666363. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 September 2008.

ed.gov

files.eric.ed.gov

English-Teaching Information Centre, British Council (December 1976). English Language Teaching Profile: Israel (PDF) (Report). London: Author. ERIC ED136607. Retrieved 2 May 2024.

eric.ed.gov

English-Teaching Information Centre, British Council (December 1976). English Language Teaching Profile: Israel (PDF) (Report). London: Author. ERIC ED136607. Retrieved 2 May 2024.

ef.com

"EF English Proficiency Index – A comprehensive ranking of countries by English skills". Ef.com. Archived from the original on 11 March 2011. Retrieved 8 April 2016.

ethnologue.com

From mid-2009 to late 2013 this entry overstated the number of native speakers by roughly 100fold, and inflated the number of total speakers, on the alleged basis of material in "Philippines". Ethnologue. 19 February 1999. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 16 October 2013.. In fact, Ethnologue Archived 10 January 2022 at the Wayback Machine as of 24 December 2013 simply repeats the number of native speakers, 20,000, reported in Crystal 2003, on the basis of an old (pre-1995) census, and does not address total speakers at all. This attempt to correct these errors in turn perpetrates both error and original research, by applying the old percentages listed above, 63.71% of people over 5 as total speakers in 2000, and .04% of people as native speakers in 1995, to the 2010 totals from Philippines in Figures, 2013, Chapter 5, Demography Archived 26 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine, tables 5.1 and 5.6. Andrew Gonzalez died in 2006; someone else's attention to the 2010 census figures, which appear not to be online and may not have been printed yet in adequate detail, is needed to produce reliable, more or less current, numbers.
Languages of Israel Archived 3 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine, Ethnologue.com
"Islander Creole English". Ethnologue. Archived from the original on 24 April 2013. Retrieved 8 May 2014.

europa.eu

ec.europa.eu

"European and their languages 2012" (PDF). Eurobarometer. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 January 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2013.

epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu

"Population at 1 January". Eurostat. Archived from the original on 9 November 2014. Retrieved 2 January 2013.

hindustantimes.com

"How languages intersect in India". Hindustan Times. 22 November 2018. Archived from the original on 22 November 2018. Retrieved 30 April 2022.

ine.gub.uy

"'Encuesta Telefónica de Idiomas' ETI 2019, page 24". www.ine.gub.uy. Archived from the original on 7 March 2021. Retrieved 15 April 2021.

inec.go.cr

"Sistemas de Consulta". Archived from the original on 14 December 2020. Retrieved 14 March 2018.

inegi.gob.mx

"Resultados definitivos". Archived from the original on 24 August 2007. Retrieved 24 October 2007.

isyours.com

switzerland.isyours.com

"English language in Switzerland". Archived from the original on 1 September 2017. Retrieved 18 April 2009.

k-international.com

"Which Countries Have the Most English Speakers? – K International". www.k-international.com. 27 February 2017. Archived from the original on 29 August 2017. Retrieved 30 August 2017.

kiis.com.ua

"LEVEL OF PROFICIENCY IN ENGLISH AND OTHER FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN UKRAINE: RESULTS OF QUANTITATIVE SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH CONDUCTED IN DECEMBER 2022 - JANUARY 2023". Kyiv International Institute of Sociology. Retrieved 8 April 2016.

ksh.hu

nepszamlalas2022.ksh.hu

"Népszámlálás 2022". Archived from the original on 8 December 2023. Retrieved 28 March 2024.

languageknowledge.eu

https://languageknowledge.eu/countries/italy

moroccoworldnews.com

"Moroccans speak English". Archived from the original on 31 December 2022. Retrieved 31 December 2022.

multilingual-matters.net

Proportion of native speakers: Census 1995, as quoted by Andrew Gonzalez in 1625 "The Language Planning Situation in the Philippines" Archived 16 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 19 (5&6), 487–525, p. 492: 67.04% of the then 68.4 million people were native speakers of English. 1998.
Edrinnie Kayambizinthu (1998). "The Language Planning Situation in Malawi" (PDF). Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 19 (5&6): 369. doi:10.1080/01434639808666363. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 September 2008.

na.gov.pk

"A Bill further to amend the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan" (PDF). na.gov.pk.

nsi.bg

"2011 census of Bulgaria" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 July 2013. Retrieved 5 August 2016.

oed.com

public.oed.com

"Nigerian English". Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University. Archived from the original on 15 May 2023. Retrieved 15 May 2023.

ons.gov.uk

"2011 Census: Quick Statistics for England and Wales, March 2011". Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 25 August 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2013.

pagina12.com.ar

"Sociedad :: Los idiomas de los argentinos" (in Spanish). Página/12. Archived from the original on 14 January 2007. Retrieved 16 October 2013.

privacyshield.gov

"Madagascar - Language". Privacy Shield. Retrieved 2 February 2025.

psa.gov.ph

"Educational Characteristics of the Filipinos". 2000 Census of population and Housing. 18 March 2005. Archived from the original on 3 January 2017. Retrieved 12 May 2016.

reykjavikrentacar.is

"Does everyone speak English in Iceland?". Keflavik, Iceland: Reykjavik Rent A Car. Archived from the original on 20 October 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2022.

rosstat.gov.ru

Национальный состав и владение языками [National composition and language proficiency] (Report) (in Russian). Vol. 5. Таблица 4. Владение языками и использование языков населением [Table 4. Language proficiency and language use by the population]. Archived from the original on 31 December 2022. Retrieved 17 January 2023.

semanticscholar.org

api.semanticscholar.org

Kadenge, Maxwell (2010). "Zimbabwean English: A sociophonological exploration". South African Journal of African Languages. 30: 35–51. doi:10.1080/02572117.2010.10587334. S2CID 153066779. Archived from the original on 24 January 2022. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
Jian Yang (April 2006). "Learners and users of English in China". English Today. 22 (2): 3–10. doi:10.1017/S0266078406002021. S2CID 145247004.. Quote: "What this suggests, it seems, is that Yan’s (2004) ten million may after all be a more informed estimate of the actual regular users of English in China." (page 9)"

statcan.gc.ca

www12.statcan.gc.ca

"Census Profile, 2016 Census". www.statcan.gc.ca. 8 February 2017. Archived from the original on 10 December 2018. Retrieved 27 October 2021.

statista.com

"Languages in Nigeria 2021, by number of speakers". Statista. Archived from the original on 1 November 2022. Retrieved 21 January 2022.

statistics.gov.lk

"Proportion of population aged 10 years and over, by ability to speak, ability to read and write main languages sex and sector" (PDF). statistics.gov.lk. Department of Census and Statistics. 2012. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 February 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2022.

statistik.at

"Bevölkerung 2001 nach Umgangssprache, Staatsangehörigkeit und Geburtsland". Statistik Austria. Archived from the original on 14 November 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2020.

statsghana.gov.gh

"2010 Population & Housing Census" (PDF). Statsghana.gov.gh. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 September 2013. Retrieved 8 April 2016.

statssa.gov.za

Census 2011: Census in brief (PDF). Pretoria: Statistics South Africa. 2012. p. 30. ISBN 9780621413885. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 May 2015.

tandfonline.com

Kadenge, Maxwell (2010). "Zimbabwean English: A sociophonological exploration". South African Journal of African Languages. 30: 35–51. doi:10.1080/02572117.2010.10587334. S2CID 153066779. Archived from the original on 24 January 2022. Retrieved 26 December 2020.

telegraph.co.uk

"Mapped: The world by English-speaking population". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 30 November 2018. Retrieved 30 August 2017.

thelocal.fr

"French speaking English". Archived from the original on 31 December 2022. Retrieved 31 December 2022.

thelocal.no

"Does everyone in Norway speak perfect English". The Local. Archived from the original on 28 May 2022. Retrieved 28 May 2022.

travbla.com

"The most complete list of English schools and courses in Ireland". Travbla.com. Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 8 April 2016.

tribune.com.pk

"Here's how Pakistan ranks among world's English speaking countries". The Express Tribune. Archived from the original on 26 December 2017. Retrieved 25 December 2017.

viewfromprague.com

"Do people speak English in Prague and Czech Republic". Archived from the original on 29 December 2022. Retrieved 29 December 2022.

voacambodia.com

Bopha, Phorn (2016). "Bilingual Cambodians See Pathways to Progress". VOA Cambodia. Archived from the original on 24 January 2022. Retrieved 8 December 2020.

web.archive.org

"How languages intersect in India". Hindustan Times. 22 November 2018. Archived from the original on 22 November 2018. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
"Languages in Nigeria 2021, by number of speakers". Statista. Archived from the original on 1 November 2022. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
"Nigerian English". Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University. Archived from the original on 15 May 2023. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
"The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency". www.cia.gov. Archived from the original on 13 June 2007. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
"English — more than a subject". Dawn. Archived from the original on 26 December 2017. Retrieved 25 December 2017. The report said English was deeply penetrated into the Pakistani society as it had one of the largest English-speaking populations of the world and claimed that 49pc population (88.69 million people) could speak English.
"Mapped: The world by English-speaking population". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 30 November 2018. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
"English Speakers By Country". worldatlas.com. 14 May 2018. Archived from the original on 6 July 2022. Retrieved 20 June 2022. Pakistan has the third largest number of English speakers in the world at 108,036,049 speakers.
"Here's how Pakistan ranks among world's English speaking countries". The Express Tribune. Archived from the original on 26 December 2017. Retrieved 25 December 2017.
"Which Countries Have the Most English Speakers? – K International". www.k-international.com. 27 February 2017. Archived from the original on 29 August 2017. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
"2011 Census: Quick Statistics for England and Wales, March 2011". Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 25 August 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
Total population: Census 2010. Proportion of total speakers: Census 2000,"The Language Planning Situation in the Philippines". text above Figure 7
Proportion of native speakers: Census 1995, as quoted by Andrew Gonzalez in 1625 "The Language Planning Situation in the Philippines" Archived 16 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 19 (5&6), 487–525, p. 492: 67.04% of the then 68.4 million people were native speakers of English. 1998.
From mid-2009 to late 2013 this entry overstated the number of native speakers by roughly 100fold, and inflated the number of total speakers, on the alleged basis of material in "Philippines". Ethnologue. 19 February 1999. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 16 October 2013.. In fact, Ethnologue Archived 10 January 2022 at the Wayback Machine as of 24 December 2013 simply repeats the number of native speakers, 20,000, reported in Crystal 2003, on the basis of an old (pre-1995) census, and does not address total speakers at all. This attempt to correct these errors in turn perpetrates both error and original research, by applying the old percentages listed above, 63.71% of people over 5 as total speakers in 2000, and .04% of people as native speakers in 1995, to the 2010 totals from Philippines in Figures, 2013, Chapter 5, Demography Archived 26 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine, tables 5.1 and 5.6. Andrew Gonzalez died in 2006; someone else's attention to the 2010 census figures, which appear not to be online and may not have been printed yet in adequate detail, is needed to produce reliable, more or less current, numbers.
"Educational Characteristics of the Filipinos". 2000 Census of population and Housing. 18 March 2005. Archived from the original on 3 January 2017. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
"Mikrozenus 2020: Bevölkerung in Privathaushalten nach Migrationshintergrund im weiteren Sinn nach ausgewählten Geburtsstaaten". Statistisches Bundesamt. Archived from the original on 31 May 2022. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
"French speaking English". Archived from the original on 31 December 2022. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
"Census Profile, 2016 Census". www.statcan.gc.ca. 8 February 2017. Archived from the original on 10 December 2018. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
"The Benefits of the English Language for Individuals and Societies: Quantitative Indicators from Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia and Yemen" (PDF). Britishcouncil.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 May 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
"Census 2016, Proficiency in Spoken English/Language by Age by Sex". Australian Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original on 16 January 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
Md Khaled Bin Chowdhury (9 March 2018). "Bangla Rules in All Domains of National Life". Daily Sun. Archived from the original on 25 April 2019.
Larsen, Mille (17 July 2020). "Poland languages". AutoLingual. Archived from the original on 29 December 2022. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
"2010 Population & Housing Census" (PDF). Statsghana.gov.gh. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 September 2013. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
Census 2011: Census in brief (PDF). Pretoria: Statistics South Africa. 2012. p. 30. ISBN 9780621413885. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 May 2015.
Roy Campos; Ana María Hernández (January 2013). "Mexicanos Y Los Idiomas Extranjeros" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 October 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
"Resultados definitivos". Archived from the original on 24 August 2007. Retrieved 24 October 2007.
"EF English Proficiency Index – A comprehensive ranking of countries by English skills". Ef.com. Archived from the original on 11 March 2011. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
"Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) – Zimbabwe | Data". data.worldbank.org. Archived from the original on 24 May 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
"Zimbabwe, Demographic and Health Survey 2010" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2022. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
Kadenge, Maxwell (2010). "Zimbabwean English: A sociophonological exploration". South African Journal of African Languages. 30: 35–51. doi:10.1080/02572117.2010.10587334. S2CID 153066779. Archived from the original on 24 January 2022. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
"Moroccans speak English". Archived from the original on 31 December 2022. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
Languages of Israel Archived 3 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine, Ethnologue.com
Multilingualism in Israel Archived 30 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Bar-Ilan University – Faculty of Humanities : Language Policy Research Center.
"Bevölkerung 2001 nach Umgangssprache, Staatsangehörigkeit und Geburtsland". Statistik Austria. Archived from the original on 14 November 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
"Népszámlálás 2022". Archived from the original on 8 December 2023. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
"Do people speak English in Prague and Czech Republic". Archived from the original on 29 December 2022. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
Национальный состав и владение языками [National composition and language proficiency] (Report) (in Russian). Vol. 5. Таблица 4. Владение языками и использование языков населением [Table 4. Language proficiency and language use by the population]. Archived from the original on 31 December 2022. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
Resident population according to main language Archived 30 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Federal Statistical Office, Neuchâtel 2008
"English language in Switzerland". Archived from the original on 1 September 2017. Retrieved 18 April 2009.
"Does everyone in Norway speak perfect English". The Local. Archived from the original on 28 May 2022. Retrieved 28 May 2022.
"The most complete list of English schools and courses in Ireland". Travbla.com. Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
"Proportion of population aged 10 years and over, by ability to speak, ability to read and write main languages sex and sector" (PDF). statistics.gov.lk. Department of Census and Statistics. 2012. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 February 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
Bopha, Phorn (2016). "Bilingual Cambodians See Pathways to Progress". VOA Cambodia. Archived from the original on 24 January 2022. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
"Population Aged 5 and Over by Place of Birth, Usual Language and Ability to Speak Other Language/Dialect, 2011 (A123)". Census2011.gov.hk. Archived from the original on 3 May 2013. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
"Sociedad :: Los idiomas de los argentinos" (in Spanish). Página/12. Archived from the original on 14 January 2007. Retrieved 16 October 2013.
"¿Qué porcentaje de la población colombiana habla inglés?". Colombiestad.gov.co. 1 May 2006. Archived from the original on 8 May 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
"Islander Creole English". Ethnologue. Archived from the original on 24 April 2013. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
"Special Reports | Brits Abroad". BBC News. Archived from the original on 3 January 2007. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
"2011 census of Bulgaria" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 July 2013. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
"'Encuesta Telefónica de Idiomas' ETI 2019, page 24". www.ine.gub.uy. Archived from the original on 7 March 2021. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
Edrinnie Kayambizinthu (1998). "The Language Planning Situation in Malawi" (PDF). Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 19 (5&6): 369. doi:10.1080/01434639808666363. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 September 2008.
"Does everyone speak English in Iceland?". Keflavik, Iceland: Reykjavik Rent A Car. Archived from the original on 20 October 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
"Sistemas de Consulta". Archived from the original on 14 December 2020. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
"European and their languages 2012" (PDF). Eurobarometer. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 January 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2013.
"Population at 1 January". Eurostat. Archived from the original on 9 November 2014. Retrieved 2 January 2013.

wordcheats.com

Countries That Speak English

worldatlas.com

"English Speakers By Country". worldatlas.com. 14 May 2018. Archived from the original on 6 July 2022. Retrieved 20 June 2022. Pakistan has the third largest number of English speakers in the world at 108,036,049 speakers.

worldbank.org

data.worldbank.org

"Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) – Zimbabwe | Data". data.worldbank.org. Archived from the original on 24 May 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
The World Bank