Sunday, June 19, 2011

The US has the most English speakers of any country. A close second? INDIA.

There are 251,388,301 English speakers in the United States, and India doesn't lag too far behind with 232,000,000, though the vast majority of those English speakers in India speak it as a second or third language.

That number (232 Million) is nearly 4 times the number of English speakers in the United Kingdom (59.6 Million). The UK is in 4th place for number of English speakers, behind the US, India and Nigeria. The rest of the top 10 in order are:

#5 Phillipines
#6 Germany
#7 CANADA 
#8 France
#9 AUSTRALIA
#10 a tie between Italy and Pakistan

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