Ethnologue lists English as a major language in over 100 nations and territories

[Tooting Carmen]

Ethnologue's updated page about English now also lists:

Aruba (42,000 speakers), Belgium (4,284,500 speakers), Bulgaria (1,802,500 speakers), China (10,000,000 speakers), Croatia (2,600,000 speakers), Curacao (4,440 speakers), Czechia (2,867,200 speakers), Hungary (1,980,000 speakers), Italy (20,700,000 speakers), Latvia (914,000 speakers), Lithuania (1,100,290 speakers), Poland (12,780,900 speakers), Portugal (2,851,900 speakers), Romania (6,240,000 speakers), Russia (7,572,520 speakers), St Barthelemy (100 speakers), St Maarten (5,000 speakers), Slovakia (1,410,000 speakers), Slovenia (1,200,000 speakers), South Korea (5,000,000 speakers), Spain (10,486,000 speakers), Switzerland (4,845,000 speakers)

[Tooting Carmen]

Looking at the Ethnologue article again, here are the percentages of English-speakers in the following E2L and EFL territories (non-exhaustive list):

American Samoa 100%, Argentina 6.5%, Aruba 39.62%, Austria 73.68%. Bahrain 1.18%, Belgium 37.76%, Bhutan ?, Botswana 30.91%, Bulgaria 25%, Cambodia 22.22%, Cameroon 31.35%, Caribbean Netherlands 13.56%, China ~1%, China-Hong Kong 51.04%, Christmas Island 19.95%, Cocos Islands 16.78%, Colombia 4%, Cook Islands 95.05%, Croatia 49%, Curacao 2.76%, Cyprus 75.97%, Czechia 27.04%, Denmark 85.74%, Dominican Republic ~1%, Eritrea ?, Estonia 50.26%, Eswatini 52.38%, Ethiopia ~1%, Fiji 19.6%, Finland 70%, Gambia 2%, Germany 56.91%, Ghana 35.42%, Guam 94.89%, Honduras ~1%, Hungary 20.05%, India 15.8%, Israel 1.5%, Italy 33.31%, Kenya 5.67%, Kiribati 23.83%, Latvia 45.86%, Lebanon 28.55%, Lesotho 22.73%, Liberia 55.56%, Lithuania 37.53%, Madagascar ?, Malawi 3.14%, Malaysia 24.33%, Maldives ?, Malta 90.09%, Marshall Islands 100%, Mauritius 16.3%, Micronesia 58.4%, Monaco 8.39%, Namibia 14.09%, Nauru 97.37%, Nepal 24.14%, Netherlands 90.35%, Nigeria 32.26%, Niue 53.09%, Norfolk Island 96%, Northern Mariana Islands 97.85%, Norway 81.67%, Oman ?, Pakistan 9%, Palau 100%, Papua New Guinea 41.34%, Philippines 38.74%, Pitcairn ?, Poland 33.26%, Portugal 27.35%, Puerto Rico 55.87%, Romania 31%, Russia 5.25%, Rwanda 12.82%, St Barthelemy ~1%, St Martin 15.63%, Samoa 56.82%, Seychelles 36.8%, Sierra Leone 81.15%, Singapore 72.39%, St Maarten 12.69%, Slovakia 25.97%, Slovenia 59.08%, Solomon Islands 27%, Somalia ?, South Africa 28.38%, South Korea 9.5%, South Sudan ?, Spain 22.6%, Sri Lanka 9.33%, Sudan ?, Sweden 85.48%, Switzerland 57.87%, Tanzania 7.41%, Tokelau 48%, Tonga 29.22%, Tuvalu 7.34%, Uganda 7.17%, UAE ~1%, Vanuatu 46.38%, Zambia 11.53%, Zimbabwe 34.86%.

[Duffmannn]

There are regional lenguages that are important too due to the lack of english penetration on its bastions: spanish, russian, arabic and chinese mandarin. The single one that grows outside and competes a bit against english is spanish (mainly in USA, the latin Europe and Brazil) [Despite portuguese and spanish could be consideared a macro-lenguage, nuch more similar than chinese, german or arabic dialects that are consideared the same lenguage]

Paradoxically the lenguage most important one century ago, french, has been clearly defeated in importance and number of students everywhere first by english and then by spanish.

[Duffmannn]

I wonder will the Brexit reduce the importance of English language in Europe?

English is important due to USA and the Commonwealth more than UK.

Same happens with Spanish, and much more with the portuguese and Brazil.

[CostaRicaBall]

There are regional lenguages that are important too due to the lack of english penetration on its bastions: spanish, russian, arabic and chinese mandarin. The single one that grows outside and competes a bit against english is spanish (mainly in USA, the latin Europe and Brazil) [Despite portuguese and spanish could be consideared a macro-lenguage, nuch more similar than chinese, german or arabic dialects that are consideared the same lenguage]

Paradoxically the lenguage most important one century ago, french, has been clearly defeated in importance and number of students everywhere first by english and then by spanish.

French was more symbolic than functional since France was the bastion of freedom.

[Tooting Carmen]

French was more symbolic than functional since France was the bastion of freedom.

France was also a serious economic and military rival to Britain. What's more, French was regarded as the language of law, diplomacy and high culture.

[Tooting Carmen]

English is important due to USA and the Commonwealth more than UK.

I agree to an extent, though the UK is still among the top ten biggest economies, is still a nuclear power, still among the biggest exporters of media (TV programmes, films, music) after the USA...

Same happens with Spanish, and much more with the portuguese and Brazil.

Portuguese, yes. With Spanish, only Mexico and Argentina come anywhere close to the cultural, economic and military power of Spain itself. (In terms of overall size of their economies, not GDP per capita).