Spoken Worldwide
A third of the world’s population speaks English as a first or secondary language, over 2 billion people.2
Tony Reilly noted an earlier estimate in “English Changes Lives” in Britain’s The Sunday Times, “There are now estimated to be 1.5 billion English speakers globally: 375 million who speak English as their first language, 375 million as a second language and 750 million who speak English as a foreign language.”
2020-01-28