INTERESTING FIGURES ABOUT THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

(World Population in 2017 = +/- 7,6 billion)

500 MILLION SPEAKERS ARE NATIVE (USA, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand)

TWO BILLION SPEAKERS ARE NONNATIVE (use English as a second language in 55 countries – Jamaica, Nigeria, South Africa, etc.) - and 27 State Entities (Puerto Rico, Hong Kong, etc.)

TWO BILLION PEOPLE ARE ENGLISH USERS (in many places excluding natives and second language speakers)

EIGHT HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE SPEAK ENGLISH  IN 10 COUNTRIES, IN THIS ORDER - US, India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Philippines, UK, Germany, Bangladesh, Egypt and Canada. 

(it means that more than 50% of the planet speaks or makes use of English)

AT LOCAL PLACES (US, UK, ETC.) WE FIND FEW, BUT RELEVANT MISPRONUNCIATION (EX. Thank you, New York, library, nice, yesterday, etc. )

AT INTERNATIONAL PLACES (FRANCE, BRAZIL, ETC.) WE FIND MORE MISPRONUNCIATION (EX. Restaurant, mirror, etc.)

76% OF THE PEOPLE HAVE VISUAL CONTACT WITH THE IDIOM (Signs, billboards, subtitles, computer language, etc.)

24 % OF THE PEOPLE HAVE AUDIO CONTACT WITH THE IDIOM (Music, cable TV, etc.)

80% OF THE NET INFORMATION AND NAVIGATION IS IN ENGLISH

56% OF SITES ARE WRITTEN IN ENGLISH

60% OF THE WORLD BUSINESS AND TRADE IN DONE IN ENGLISH (AGAINST 12% OF SPANISH AND ONLY 28 % IN LOCAL LANGUAGES)

TEENS LISTEN TO ENGLISH 4/6 HOURS A DAY