This statistic presents the leading European countries by their level of English proficiency as of March 2019. According to data provided by Klazz, Sweden had the highest percentage of people who were proficient in English at 71 percent of the population.

With 2.77 points Bolivia reported the highest increase in the English Proficiency Index score between 2017 and 2018 among presented Latin American countries. Bolivia's general score in 2018 stood at 51.65 points, placing it in the "low proficiency" level, as set my the source. Proficiency levels used by the source: Very high proficiency: 63 point or higher, High proficiency: 58 to 62 points, Moderate proficiency: 52 to 58 points, Low proficiency: 48.5 to 53 points, Very low proficiency: Lower than 48.5 points.

Argentina scored 562 out of a maximum of 800 points in the English Proficiency Index 2023. That was the highest score among all Latin American countries included in the survey. The Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, also received the highest English proficiency score among all the Latin American cities analyzed. Mexico and Haiti received the lowest scores in the region.

In 2023, the United Kingdom had the most students learning English as a foreign language and accounted for 38 percent of the total worldwide. Second in the list was Australia, where 18 percent of students studying English as a foreign language were hosted.

Singapore scored 631 out of a maximum of 800 points in the English Proficiency Index 2022, the highest score across the selected Asian countries and territories. In contrast, Thailand reached an English Proficiency Index score of 416 that year.

In 2025, there were around 1.53 billion people worldwide who spoke English either natively or as a second language, slightly more than the 1.18 billion Mandarin Chinese speakers at the time of survey. Hindi and Spanish accounted for the third and fourth most widespread languages that year. Languages in the United States The United States does not have an official language, but the country uses English, specifically American English, for legislation, regulation, and other official pronouncements. The United States is a land of immigration, and the languages spoken in the United States vary as a result of the multicultural population. The second most common language spoken in the United States is Spanish or Spanish Creole, which over than 43 million people spoke at home in 2023. There were also 3.5 million Chinese speakers (including both Mandarin and Cantonese),1.8 million Tagalog speakers, and 1.57 million Vietnamese speakers counted in the United States that year. Different languages at home The percentage of people in the United States speaking a language other than English at home varies from state to state. The state with the highest percentage of population speaking a language other than English is California. About 45 percent of its population was speaking a language other than English at home in 2023.

In 2023, the growth in the number of students learning English as a foreign language was significant. New Zealand recorded a percentage growth of 174 percent between 2022 and 2023.

Estonia's English Proficiency Index was the highest among CEE and CIS countries in 2023. An average respondent in the country received 621 index points, meaning that their CEFR level was comparable to C1. CIS countries reported lower proficiency levels, with respondents in Armenia and Azerbaijan receiving a score comparable to B2 and B1, respectively.

This statistic shows the results of a survey conducted in the Middle East and North Africa region in 2015 on the percentage of people who use the English language to access different types of media. According to the survey, 25 percent of respondents in Egypt used English to access the internet, as opposed to seven percent who used English to access TV.

In 2023, the United Kingdom had the most students learning English as a foreign language. There were approximately 419,000 students who were learning English as a second language that year, followed by Australia with almost 169,000 foreign students. The third place ranking was completed by the U.S., with around 144,000 students learning English as a foreign language. The global English learning market Learning English has become increasingly important for young people, especially in terms of international communication, increasing employability at multinational firms or securing work abroad, and specializing in fields as a global expert. The United Kingdom had both the highest number of students learning English as a foreign language and the shared highest distribution of English language learning revenue. In the past few years, the English language learning market has experienced a decrease in revenue, perhaps partially due to more free online platforms becoming accessible, as well as more companies and schools implementing English learning systems. 2022, however, has shown signs of improvement in terms of revenue. In 2020, revenues generated by the English learning market were dramatically lower due to travel restrictions implemented to limit the spread of COVID-19, as this trend continued into 2021. The global language services industry Over the course of the past two decades, the need for bilingual and multilingual skills has increased substantially. In an increasingly globalized world that is becoming more and more connected over time, people have been motivated to learn additional languages to suit both personal and professional demands. The market size of the global language services industry has grown to reflect this, with expected revenues of around 55 billion U.S. dollars projected for 2022.

In 2022, Australia had the highest distribution of English language learning student weeks, totaling 25 percent. The second-placed country in the list was Canada, with their share of English language student weeks totaling just short of 20 percent of the countries surveyed.

As of February 2025, English was the most popular language for web content, with over 49.4 percent of websites using it. Spanish ranked second, with six percent of web content, while the content in the German language followed, with 5.6 percent. English as the leading online language United States and India, the countries with the most internet users after China, are also the world's biggest English-speaking markets. The internet user base in both countries combined, as of January 2023, was over a billion individuals. This has led to most of the online information being created in English. Consequently, even those who are not native speakers may use it for convenience. Global internet usage by regions As of October 2024, the number of internet users worldwide was 5.52 billion. In the same period, Northern Europe and North America were leading in terms of internet penetration rates worldwide, with around 97 percent of its populations accessing the internet.

In 2022, Australia was the leading destination for English learning in terms of number of weeks students studied English as a foreign language. In that year, English study weeks in Australia amounted to almost 1.6 million weeks. Canada followed as the second leading destination with approximately 1.18 million study weeks.

Mexico is the country with the largest number of native Spanish speakers in the world. As of 2024, 132.5 million people in Mexico spoke Spanish with a native command of the language. Colombia was the nation with the second-highest number of native Spanish speakers, at around 52.7 million. Spain came in third, with 48 million, and Argentina fourth, with 46 million. Spanish, a world language As of 2023, Spanish ranked as the fourth most spoken language in the world, only behind English, Chinese, and Hindi, with over half a billion speakers. Spanish is the official language of over 20 countries, the majority on the American continent, nonetheless, it's also one of the official languages of Equatorial Guinea in Africa. Other countries have a strong influence, like the United States, Morocco, or Brazil, countries included in the list of non-Hispanic countries with the highest number of Spanish speakers. The second most spoken language in the U.S. In the most recent data, Spanish ranked as the language, other than English, with the highest number of speakers, with 12 times more speakers as the second place. Which comes to no surprise following the long history of migrations from Latin American countries to the Northern country. Moreover, only during the fiscal year 2022. 5 out of the top 10 countries of origin of naturalized people in the U.S. came from Spanish-speaking countries.

In 2021, the London borough of Newham had the highest share of residents that spoke a language other than English as their main language. Brent had the second-highest share of residents that had a different main language, followed by Ealing and Harrow, all also London boroughs. Outside of London, Leicester had the highest share of people who reported a language other than English as their main one, at 30 percent.

In 2023, the United Kingdom was the leading destinations for English language learning globally, accounting for 38 percent of the total English learning market worldwide in terms of revenue. In the same year, the revenue of English language learning services in Canada, the country with the second highest share of the revenue, was approximately 1.2 billion U.S. dollars.

Buenos Aires, Argentina scored 584 out of a maximum of 800 points in the English Proficiency Index 2023. That was the highest score among all the Latin American cities surveyed. In that year, nine cities in the region socred in the "high proficiency" range (550-599 points).

Turkey was the European country which had the largest share of its citizens self-reporting that they could not speak any foreign language, with almost 82 percent saying they were unable to do so. The United Kingdom and Bosnia and Herzegovina also had over 60 percent of their citizens self-reporting not being able to speak a foreign language. On the other hand, Slovenia, Sweden, and Estonia all had less than five percent of their populations stating they could not speak another language other than their country's main language. Slovenia, Luxembourg, and Norway were the three countries with the most citizens stating they could speak three foreign languages. On average, 37 percent of EU citizens report speaking one foreign language, 22 percent speak two, and 8.6 percent speak three, while 32 percent report speaking none.

Ireland stands as an outlier, as all citizens of the north-western European country self-reported as speaking a foreign language. This is, however, actually, a result of how the question was asked, as respondents interpreted English as being a foreign language (in the sense of not being native to Ireland), in spite of it being one of the two official languages in the country (alongside Irish) and being spoken by the vast majority of the population in Ireland as their first language.

This statistic shows the results of a 2018 survey, broken down by country, which asked young people in the European Union how many languages they could read or write in. As can be seen in the statistic, knowledge of other languages varies quite a lot between different countries. In the United Kingdom, 68 percent of respondents advised that they can only read or write in one language, compared with one percent of Danish youths.

In 2019, there were about 8.59 million children in the United States who were speaking Spanish at home. In comparison, there were about 1.27 million children in the country speaking an Asian or Pacific Island language at home.