- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 1.7 billion
- sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Script
- Latin
Where it is spoken
- Official 42
- Co-official 41
- Widely used 47
- Minority 14
Official
- United States 96% 328 million
- Nigeria 53% 125 million
- United Kingdom 98% 67 million
- Australia 96% 26 million (de facto)
- Ghana 21% 7.3 million
- Liberia 83% 4.5 million
- South Sudan 27% 3.4 million
- Zambia 16% 3.3 million
- Sierra Leone 35% 3.2 million
- Jamaica 98% 2.8 million
- Trinidad & Tobago 88% 1.2 million
- Gambia 40% 1.0 million
- Guyana 100% 794 thousand
- Solomon Islands 100% 727 thousand
- Bahamas 100% 411 thousand
- Belize 77% 320 thousand
- Barbados 100% 304 thousand
- Namibia 7% 196 thousand
- St. Lucia 90% 151 thousand
- Grenada 96% 110 thousand
- Jersey 95% 98 thousand
- St. Vincent & Grenadines 96% 97 thousand
- Antigua & Barbuda 86% 88 thousand
- U.S. Virgin Islands 75% 78 thousand (de facto)
- Dominica 94% 70 thousand
- Guernsey 100% 68 thousand
- Bermuda 92% 67 thousand
- Cayman Islands 98% 65 thousand
- Turks & Caicos Islands 98% 59 thousand
- Micronesia 57% 57 thousand
- St. Kitts & Nevis 98% 54 thousand
- Northern Mariana Islands 97% 50 thousand (de facto)
- British Virgin Islands 98% 39 thousand
- Anguilla 95% 18 thousand
- Cook Islands 100% 7.8 thousand
- Saint Helena 68% 5.4 thousand
- British Indian Ocean Territory 100% 3.5 thousand
- Montserrat 64% 3.5 thousand
- Falkland Islands 77% 2.8 thousand
- Norfolk Island 96% 1.7 thousand
- Pitcairn Islands 92% 50
- South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands 100% 20
Co-official
- India 19% 268 million
- Pakistan 50% 126 million
- Philippines 64% 76 million
- Tanzania 69% 47 million
-
Canada
87%
34 million
Official federally and in every province and territory except Quebec.
- Sudan 61% 31 million
- South Africa 31% 19 million
- Malawi 63% 14 million
- Cameroon 38% 12 million
- Kenya 19% 11 million
- Zimbabwe 42% 7.2 million
- Ireland 98% 5.1 million
- New Zealand 98% 5.1 million (de facto)
- Papua New Guinea 50% 5.0 million
- Singapore 80% 4.8 million
- Eritrea 59% 3.7 million (de facto)
- Hong Kong SAR China 51% 3.7 million
- Rwanda 15% 2.0 million
- Botswana 81% 2.0 million
- Uganda 3.9% 1.9 million
- Puerto Rico 49% 1.5 million
- Mauritius 72% 944 thousand (de facto)
- Eswatini 80% 910 thousand
- Fiji 94% 895 thousand
- Lesotho 27% 601 thousand
- Malta 88% 413 thousand
- Vanuatu 83% 264 thousand
- Guam 91% 154 thousand (de facto)
- Kiribati 100% 117 thousand
- Isle of Man 100% 92 thousand
- Marshall Islands 93% 76 thousand
- American Samoa 97% 43 thousand (de facto)
- Seychelles 38% 37 thousand
- Sint Maarten 68% 31 thousand
- Tonga 28% 29 thousand
- Nauru 95% 9.4 thousand
- Burundi <0.1% 6.3 thousand
- Samoa 2.1% 4.4 thousand
- Palau 8.6% 1.9 thousand
- Niue 56% 1.1 thousand
-
Curaçao
–
Official since 2007.
Widely used
- Germany 64% 54 million
- Ethiopia 43% 51 million
- Egypt 35% 39 million
- Bangladesh 18% 30 million
- France 39% 27 million
- Italy 34% 21 million
- Thailand 27% 19 million
- Mexico 13% 17 million
- Netherlands 90% 16 million
- Iraq 35% 15 million
- Türkiye 17% 14 million
- Poland 33% 13 million
- Spain 24% 11 million
- Sweden 86% 9.1 million
- Israel 85% 8.0 million
- Malaysia 21% 7.3 million
- Belgium 59% 7.1 million
- Austria 73% 6.5 million
- Romania 31% 5.6 million
- Greece 51% 5.3 million
-
Madagascar
18%
5.3 million
It was an official language in 2007–2010.
- Morocco 14% 5.2 million
- Denmark 86% 5.1 million
- Jordan 45% 5.0 million
- United Arab Emirates 50% 5.0 million
- Switzerland 45% 4.0 million
- Finland 70% 3.9 million
- Kazakhstan 15% 3.0 million
- Czechia 27% 2.9 million
- Portugal 27% 2.8 million
- Sri Lanka 10% 2.2 million
- Lebanon 40% 2.1 million
- Croatia 49% 2.0 million
- Hungary 20% 2.0 million
- Bosnia & Herzegovina 45% 1.7 million
- Bulgaria 25% 1.7 million
- Slovakia 26% 1.4 million
- Slovenia 59% 1.2 million
- Lithuania 38% 999 thousand
- Cyprus 73% 964 thousand
- Latvia 46% 829 thousand
- Panama 14% 626 thousand
- Estonia 50% 597 thousand
- Luxembourg 56% 376 thousand
- Maldives 75% 292 thousand
- Macao SAR China 23% 148 thousand
- Bhutan 11% 97 thousand
Minority
- Brazil 8% 18 million
- Russia 3.8% 5.4 million
- Algeria 7% 3.3 million
- Argentina 7% 3.3 million
- Yemen 9% 2.9 million
- Chile 9.5% 1.8 million
- Nepal 3% 934 thousand
- Guatemala 3.1% 566 thousand
- China <0.1% 64 thousand
- Honduras 0.4% 42 thousand
- Dominican Republic <0.1% 8.0 thousand
- Brunei 1.6% 7.9 thousand
- Aruba 2.4% 3.0 thousand
- St. Pierre & Miquelon 3.7% 190