Countries Where Over 90% Of The Population Can Speak English

The map above shows which countries have population where are least 90% of the population can speak English as either a first language or as an additional language.

The big caveat is that it’s based on self-reported levels of English ability so is likely not 100% accurate. For example I find it difficult to believe that a greater share of people in Sudan can speak English than in Canada.

I originally saw a similar map on reddit, using the following data source from Wikipedia but it included quite a few errors so I made my own.

Here’s the full list:

Country	Total Number of English speakers	Number of English speakers %
Barbados	296,000	100
Gibraltar	28,875	100
Isle of Man	80,000	99.93
Ireland	4,350,000	98.37
Marshall Islands	58,000	98.31
United Kingdom	62,912,000	98.3
Iceland	368,723	98
New Zealand	4,181,902	97.82
Jamaica	2,650,000	97.64
Bermuda	63,000	96.92
Nauru	11,600	96.67
Singapore	3,900,000	96.43
United States	297,400,000	95.29
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	114,000	95
Dominica	63,000	94.03
South Sudan	10,258,374	94
Sudan	43,921,129	93.7
Australia	21,715,910	92.8
Palau	18,500	92.5
Anguilla	12,000	92.31
Guam	158,000	91.09
Grenada	100,000	90.91
Netherlands	15,250,000	90.9
Guyana	680,000	90.55
Zimbabwe	11,850,710	90
Norway	4,500,000	90
Sweden	9,236,000	89
Malta	400,000	89
Trinidad and Tobago	1,145,000	87.74
Bahamas	288,000	87.13
Suriname	410,000	87.09
British Virgin Islands	20,000	86.96
Denmark	4,770,000	86
Israel	6,205,000	84.97
Vanuatu	180,000	83.55
Sierra Leone	4,900,000	83.53
Northern Mariana Islands	70,000	83.33
Canada	30,480,750	83.06
Liberia	3,100,000	82.67
Belize	246,000	81.65
U.S. Virgin Islands	86,000	80.37
American Samoa	45,933	80.1
Antigua and Barbuda	68,000	80
Saint Kitts and Nevis	39,000	78
Cayman Islands	36,000	76.6
Cyprus	630,000	75
Austria	6,150,000	73
Papua New Guinea	4,459,191	70.4
Finland	3,800,000	70
Montserrat	4,000	67.8
Ghana	18,000,000	66.67
Philippines	70,117,935	63.74
Malaysia	15,580,000	62.57
Switzerland	4,680,000	61.28
Nigeria	125,039,680	60.64
Belgium	6,250,000	60
Croatia	2,600,000	60
Slovenia	1,210,000	59
Federated States of Micronesia	64,000	57.66
France	38,643,750	57.25
Germany	45,400,000	56.33
Luxembourg	290,000	56
Ukraine	17,016,000	51
Greece	5,500,000	51
Czechia	5,350,000	50.65
Estonia	650,000	50.22
Samoa	94,000	49.86
Poland	18,890,000	49.06
Pakistan	108,044,691	48.91
Puerto Rico	1,940,000	48.61
Eswatini	550,000	48.2
Hong Kong	3,136,784	46.07
Latvia	950,000	46
Uganda	19,800,000	45
Jordan	2,969,370	45
Saint Lucia	71,000	43.03
Aruba	44,000	42.31
Lebanon	1,706,000	40
Egypt	44,373,802	39.98
Brunei	144,000	39.07
Botswana	630,000	38.42
Cameroon	7,500,000	38
Lithuania	1,160,000	38
Seychelles	33,000	37.93
Iraq	11,095,000	35
Solomon Islands	175,000	31.68
South Africa	16,424,417	31
Romania	5,900,000	31
Indonesia	85,968,611	30.8
Tonga	30,000	30
Lesotho	500,000	27.86
Thailand	17,121,187	27.16
Portugal	2,900,000	27
Slovakia	1,400,000	26
Hungary	2,428,295	25.29
Bulgaria	1,900,000	25
Kiribati	23,000	24.21
Uruguay	840,000	24
Cambodia	3,500,000	22.2
Spain	10,400,000	22
Andorra	17,869	22
Fiji	176,000	20.62
Cook Islands	4,000	19.8
Kenya	41,332,711	18.83
Sri Lanka	3,994,174	18.32
Morocco	6,883,220	18.3
Madagascar	4,147,614	18
Namibia	314,000	17.24
Turkey	12,000,000	17
Zambia	1,910,000	16.02
Mauritius	202,000	15.97
India	228,539,090	15.76
Kazakhstan	1,874,583	15.42
Rwanda	1,520,610	15
Panama	584,762	14
Italy	8,121,000	13.74
Mexico	15,686,262	12.9
Bangladesh	19,838,772	12
Tanzania	4,000,000	9.89
Chile	1,585,027	9.53
Yemen	2,232,000	9
Costa Rica	400,415	8.2
Algeria	2,516,780	7
Argentina	2,752,681	6.52
Afghanistan	2,467,800	6
Brazil	12,000,000	5
Russia	7,000,000	5
Myanmar	2,400,000	4.45
Colombia	2,012,950	4.22
Malawi	540,209	3.88
Nepal	896,720	3
The Gambia	40,000	2.34
China	10,000,000	0.9
Ecuador	225,000	7.10