HOW MANY PEOPLE SPEAK ENGLISH?
English has official or special status in at least seventy five countries with a total population of over two billion English is spoken as a first language by around 375 million and as a second language by around 375 million speakers in the world* speakers of English as a second language probably outnumber those who speak it as a first language around 750 million people are believed to speak English as a foreign language one out of four of the world’s population speak English to some level of competence; demand from the other three-quarters is increasing.
