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English Speaking Countries
Countries Where English is Spoken

This list of English speaking countries includes those countries where English is an official language or is widely spoken:

Antigua and Barbuda
Australia
Bahamas
Barbados
Beliza
Botswana
Brunei
Cameroon
Canada
Dominica
Ethiopia
Fiji
Gambia
Ghana
Grenada
Guyana
India
Ireland
Israel
Jamaica
Kenya
Kiribati
Lesotho
Liberia
Malawi
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritius
Micronesia
Namibia
Nauru
New Zealand
Nigeria
Pakistan
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Philippines
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Solomon Islands
South Africa
Swaziland
Tanzania
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tuvalu
Uganda
United Kingdom
United States
Vanuatu
Zambia
Zimbabwe

eye4eye: This can't be accurate. Nigeria and Ghana should be in top five.

MightyThor: English proficiency among the countries workforce, humm.......
Using Nairaland as a case study, even with the spell check assist, we keep reading grammatical blunders here every freaking day.

demelza: Why should we invest in the English language when our indigenous languages are wheezing for air?
If this statistics means that less attention is being paid to English then I consider it a welcome development.
Hopefully it signifies that our language is being given the prerequisite attention.

Orikinla:

From the terrible use of English I see in comments on Nairaland, I am not surprised.

iterator25: don't get worked up, its not a credible source

eGuerrilla:

I don't follow...
Did you seriously expect a country where English is spoken as an official language to show up on that list?

eGuerrilla:

Source

iterator25: don't get worked up, its not a credible source

Orikinla:

India is on the list.

"The Indian constitution, in 1950, declared Hindi in Devanagari script to be the official language of the union.[9] Unless Parliament decided otherwise, the use of English for official purposes was to cease 15 years after the constitution came into effect, i.e., on 26 January 1965.[10] The prospect of the changeover, however, led to much alarm in the non Hindi-speaking areas of India, especially Dravidian-speaking states whose languages were not related to Hindi at all. As a result, Parliament enacted the Official Languages Act, 1963,[11][12][13][14][15][16] which provided for the continued use of English for official purposes along with Hindi, even after 1965."

eGuerrilla:

Source

Toaskarity:

I saw india at the above list too..so you may be wrong.

I don't think this should be an issue, in reality we still do better when it comes to outsiders understanding us unlike most countries above..my two yrs here in the state, recently I don't have to repeat myself twice to most ppl (especially ones that went to college)but can not say same with my indian that been here for 4yrs now.

GLOBAL: English proficiency ranking of 44 countries

The Nordic countries, Finland and The Netherlands top the ranking with the highest proficiency followed by Austria, Belgium, Germany and Malaysia. Malaysia is the only country in Asia to be ranked as having 'very high' English language proficiency. But the list excludes Singapore, where English is an official language.

China and India, major sources of international students, are classified as having 'low proficiency', coming 30th and 31st respectively in the 44-country table. Other countries with low proficiency include Italy and Spain.

More surprising was that general English language proficiency in India and China was similar despite the role of English in India, including as the main language of instruction in many universities there.

"The EPI does not look at those who already speak English," said Yerrie Kim, special project manager at Education First. In particular the online tests do not include speaking skills, which may account for poorer scores in India and Hong Kong where English is widely used in everyday situations, and higher than expected scores in China and South Korea where it is not.

The EF English Proficiency Index has been criticized for its lack of representative sampling in each country.[4] The report states that participants in the tests are self-selected and must have access to the internet. This pushes the index towards the realm of an online survey rather than a statistically valid evaluation.

eGuerrilla:

The reason for this is provided below.


Source

I can tell you without fear of contradiction that India does not rank highly when it comes to proficiency in the English language.

foreignstudy: I want to ask why so many students from nigeria have fear to make english test for foreign Universities like Toefl or Ielts.

I work in austria, and I have students from many countries and i get this english test that they know the english language without asking them.

I can speak from my country about learning a second language it start here at the first primary school and goes on with the secondary schools.

chreld_b: Nigeria is not on this list because English is the official language of Nigeria. In other words, the sixty countries listed are not on the same league as Nigeria in terms of English proficiency. You would observe that non of the countries listed have English language as their official of first language. If not this list would mean that those listed countries are more proficient in English than countries like U.S.A, Canada, Australia, South Africa and even UK. . Don't get yourselves worked up people! We are not on their level. Listing Nigeria in that category of nations in terms of English proficiency is actually an insult.

solomon111: Why should anyone be bothered about english proficiency in Nigeria?
Are we still a british colony.?