How many people in the world speak English?

How Many People In The World Speak English?

• Out of the world’s approximately 7.8 billion inhabitants.
• 1.35 billion speak English.
• The majority aren’t native English speakers.
• About 360 million people speak English as their first language.
• The most common first language is Chinese, followed distantly by Spanish and then, in third, comes English.

AFRICA

Camiron

Uganda

Nigeria

South Africa

9.8 M

16 M

29 M

111 M

How Many People Speak English In Africa?

• a number of African countries have English as an official language.
• In all of Africa, a population of about 1.2 billion.
• only 6.5 million people speak English as their native language.
• Around 237 million people in Africa speak English in total (including native and non-native speakers).