Approximately 420 million people live in countries where English would be considered the "mother tongue" (most of these coming from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia), and make up about 6% of the population. The other 94% live in countries where English is not the mother tongue.
lets say that there are about 7 billion people in the world today, about 1 in 4 speak english, 3 out of 4 do not, so 75%. The figures quoted are for people who speak English as a first or second language gained through some sort of educational system. Unofficially there may be many more
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Most people dont speak english. But it makes no sense Brazil was founded by Portugal, and as such has the national language of Portugese. What percentage speak Spanish is a hard thing to research for English speaking people. But there must be a strong percentage since almost every country that boarders Brazil is Spanish speaking. Note there is one that has the national language of French. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Its our Official and NATIONAL Language, we never speak English here, Only Portuguese, we learn English and Spanish at school though, some people might do French... Not many speak English here, we speak Portuguese of course, not Spanish, its an insult if you speak spanish here. But the spanish speaking Population is 6.5%. English is like 3%.
As a mother language about 70 million speak Italian As a Cultural language about 110 million speak Italian Giving a total of 180 million, with a world population of 6,700,000,000 This comes out at about 2.7% of the worlds population. More information is available on the link below
An estimated 5.7 billion to 6.1 billion people do not speak any English at all.
English is the third most popular language in the world, after Mandarin and Spanish. English is spoken by 5.43 percent of the worlds population, so therefore 94.57 percent of the worlds population speak no English.
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8% of the population speaks English as a second language. However, this percentage does not include people that live in Britain but do not speak any English at all.
Roughly about 30%
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About 84% of the worlds population speaks a language other than English.
English is fluently spoken by about 10% of the population in Sri Lanka.
Sources seem to indicate that about 39% of the French population speaks English.
About 6.25% - around 350 million.
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Approximately 10% of the population in Chile speaks English. English proficiency levels tend to be higher in urban areas and among younger generations.
The estimated number of people in the world that speak English fluently is about 30 percent of the population. If the world's population is about 7,264,712,400 people. This would mean that roughly 2,179,413,720 people in the world currently speak English fluently.