What percentage of the world population speak Standard English? |
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Votes: 2623
Comments: 20
Added: May 2004
| RonBee - 25th November 2006 07:15 |
| Well under 50% of the word's population speaks English of any kind. |
| Evan - 4th February 2007 17:11 |
| Anyone who thinks that over 50% of the world speaks english has clearly never left the confines of their own small town. |
| Adam Brewer - 23rd April 2007 01:04 |
| "Standard English" is not defined. Does it mean a native speaker, or does it include people who know "standard" English as a second language and just excluding Pidgins. |
| Tom - 21st May 2007 08:11 |
| It is around 30%. 322 million people speak english as first language, and 500 million speak it as a second language. Its almost around a billion in total. Yet the world population is 6 Billion +. So i believe that it is only 30% maximum. And will decrease in the future. |
| google - 4th June 2007 16:23 |
| that is weird |
| Raybee - 9th June 2007 16:58 |
| I thought less than 50% of the world speaks Mandarin and that is the world's most spoken language; thus there must be less than 50% of people who speak Standard English |
| English girl - 27th September 2007 13:23 |
| what is the worlds poulation? |
| kimmikoto - 22nd November 2007 02:09 |
| About 6 billion people |
| aye english - 20th December 2007 07:48 |
| in just about any remote corner of the world you go, somebody speaks english. but in los angeles, right here in the largest english speaking country in the world, at least 25% of the population (conservative estimate) doesn't speak english. now that just ain't no good. |
| jerry - 4th January 2008 01:06 |
| Your English just aint no good |
| burhoe - 3rd June 2008 00:06 |
| WHo cares what people's opinions are? Most people were wrong. What is the correct answer? |
| Chas - 21st August 2008 15:55 |
| It's about 20%. The most "liberal" estimates put it as high as 30%. |
| liam mendez - 11th November 2008 09:27 |
| all i whant to know is can spanish people speak english |
| Grace - 14th December 2008 14:58 |
| Anyone who believes that 50% of the world's population speaks english either lives in a cave or in Pittsburgh! |
| Man Man - 19th March 2009 07:26 |
| I don't think that so much people can speak english correctly. Especially in Asia Country. So I think will definitele less than 50%. But it's only what I think ...!! |
| really? - 26th March 2009 03:35 |
| The world population is 6780 million, only 340 million speak english as first language, and a similar number as a second language, so no more than 10% can speak english fluently. |
| derek - 30th March 2009 04:39 |
| English has become the main language of business, science, airlines, and most Japanese, Chinese, Indian, German, Russians, Northern Europeans and Central Europeans are all on their way to making it the number one language for international use. For better or worse most South Americans who come illegally to the U.S. ironically did not have much English in their limited schooling and this is why California will eventually if not already become a state with two languages. |
| T. Rulz - 10th May 2009 11:47 |
| Is there any actual answer for this? |
| a;lksdfj - 18th May 2009 00:06 |
| Sources people, Cite your sources |
| Rick Payne - 4th February 2010 18:16 |
| It is why my new books are all written in at least two languages, I want to encourage learning a second language. |
