English speaking by country

1 2 4 6 8 12 15 16 18 19 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 32 35 40 Country Name Afghanistan Albania American Samoa Angola Argentina Austria Bahrain Bangladesh Belarus Belgium Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Cambodia Cape Verde Chile Code AFG ALB ASM AGO ARG AUT BHR BGD BLR BEL BTN BOL BIH BWA BRA BRN BGR KHM CPV CHL Continent Asia Europe East Asia & Pacific Africa America Europe Asia Asia Europe Europe Asia America Europe Africa America Asia Europe Asia Africa America

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41 42 46 48 49 50 51 52 54 55 56 57 58 60 61 62 64 65 66 67 69 71 72 73 74 76 77 80 Country Name China Colombia Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt, Arab Rep. El Salvador Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland France French Polynesia Gambia, The Germany Ghana Greece Greenland Guam Guatemala Guyana Code CHN COL CRI HRV CUB CYP CZE DNK DMA DOM ECU EGY SLV ERI EST ETH FJI FIN FRA PYF GMB DEU GHA GRC GRL GUM GTM GUY Continent Asia America America Europe America Asia Europe Europe America America America Africa America Africa Europe Europe East Asia & Pacific Europe Europe East Asia & Pacific Africa Europe Africa Europe America East Asia & Pacific America America

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82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 92 93 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 108 109 110 111 112 115 117 118 119 Country Name Honduras Hong Kong, China Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran, Islamic Rep. Iraq Israel Italy Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Korea, Dem. Rep. Korea, Rep. Kosovo Kuwait Kyrgyz Republic Lao PDR Latvia Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Macedonia, FYR Malawi Malaysia Maldives Code HND HKG HUN ISL IND IDN IRN IRQ ISR ITA JPN JOR KAZ KEN KIR PRK KOR KSV KWT KGZ LAO LVA LSO LBR LBY LIE LTU MKD MWI MYS MDV Continent America Asia Europe Europe Asia Asia Asia Asia Asia Europe Asia Asia Asia Africa Asia Asia Asia Europe Asia Asia Asia Europe Africa Africa Africa Europe Europe Europe Africa Asia Asia

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121 122 124 126 127 129 131 134 135 136 137 139 141 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 Country Name Malta Marshall Islands Mauritius Mexico Micronesia, Fed. Sts. Monaco Montenegro Myanmar Namibia Nepal Netherlands New Caledonia Nicaragua Nigeria Northern Mariana Islands Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Romania Russian Federation Code MLT MHL MUS MEX FSM MCO MNE MMR NAM NPL NLD NCL NIC NGA MNP NOR OMN PAK PLW PAN PNG PRY PER PHL POL PRT PRI QAT ROM RUS Continent Europe East Asia & Pacific Africa America America Europe Europe Asia Africa Asia Europe East Asia & Pacific America Africa East Asia & Pacific Europe Asia Asia Asia America East Asia & Pacific America America Asia Europe Europe America Asia Europe Europe & Central Asia

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161 164 165 166 167 170 171 173 175 176 178 180 181 182 183 184 185 187 188 191 194 196 198 Country Name Samoa Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Slovak Republic Slovenia Somalia Spain Sri Lanka St. Lucia Sudan Suriname Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Syrian Arab Republic Tanzania Thailand Tonga Turkey Uganda United Arab Emirates Code WSM SAU SEN SRB SYC SVK SVN SOM ESP LKA LCA SDN SUR SWZ SWE CHE SYR TZA THA TON TUR UGA ARE Continent Asia Asia Africa Europe Africa Europe Europe Africa Europe Asia America Africa America Africa Europe Europe Asia Africa Asia East Asia & Pacific Asia Africa Asia

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201 203 204 205 207 208 209 210 Country Name Uruguay Vanuatu Venezuela, RB Vietnam West Bank and Gaza Yemen, Rep. Zambia Zimbabwe Code URY VUT VEN VNM WBG YEM ZMB ZWE Continent America Asia America Asia Asia Asia Africa Africa

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Country Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Afghanistan Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas, The Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Channel Islands Chile Code AFG ALB DZA ASM ADO AGO ATG ARG ARM ABW AUS AUT AZE BHS BHR BGD BRB BLR BEL BLZ BEN BMU BTN BOL BIH BWA BRA BRN BGR BFA BDI KHM CMR CAN CPV CYM CAF TCD CHI CHL Continent Asia Europe Africa East Asia & Pacific Europe Africa America America Europe America Oceania Europe Asia America Asia Asia America Europe Europe America Africa America Asia America Europe Africa America Asia Europe Africa Africa Asia Africa America Africa Africa Africa Africa Europe America

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Country Name 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 China Colombia Comoros Congo, Dem. Rep. Congo, Rep. Costa Rica Cte d'Ivoire Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt, Arab Rep. El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Faeroe Islands Fiji Finland France French Polynesia Gabon Gambia, The Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Greenland Grenada Guam Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Code CHN COL COM ZAR COG CRI CIV HRV CUB CYP CZE DNK DJI DMA DOM ECU EGY SLV GNQ ERI EST ETH FRO FJI FIN FRA PYF GAB GMB GEO DEU GHA GRC GRL GRD GUM GTM GIN GNB GUY Continent Asia America Africa Africa Africa America Africa Europe America Asia Europe Europe Africa America America America Africa America America Africa Europe Europe East Asia & Pacific Europe Europe Africa Africa Asia Europe Africa Europe America America .. America Africa Africa America

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Country Name 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 Haiti Honduras Hong Kong, China Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran, Islamic Rep. Iraq Ireland Isle of Man Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Korea, Dem. Rep. Korea, Rep. Kosovo Kuwait Kyrgyz Republic Lao PDR Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macao, China Macedonia, FYR Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Code HTI HND HKG HUN ISL IND IDN IRN IRQ IRL IMY ISR ITA JAM JPN JOR KAZ KEN KIR PRK KOR KSV KWT KGZ LAO LVA LBN LSO LBR LBY LIE LTU LUX MAC MKD MDG MWI MYS MDV MLI Continent America America Asia Europe Europe Asia Asia Asia Asia Europe Europe Asia Europe America Asia Asia Asia Africa Asia Asia Asia Europe Asia Asia Asia Europe Asia Africa Africa Africa Europe Europe Europe Asia Europe Africa Africa Asia Asia Africa

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Country Name 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 Malta Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Micronesia, Fed. Sts. Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Northern Mariana Islands Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Romania Russian Federation Rwanda Code MLT MHL MRT MUS MYT MEX FSM MDA MCO MNG MNE MAR MOZ MMR NAM NPL NLD ANT NCL NZL NIC NER NGA MNP NOR OMN PAK PLW PAN PNG PRY PER PHL POL PRT PRI QAT ROM RUS RWA Continent Europe East Asia & Pacific Africa Africa Africa America America Europe Europe Asia Europe Africa Africa Asia Africa Asia Europe America .. Oceania America Africa Africa .. Europe Asia Asia Asia America East Asia & Pacific America America Asia Europe Europe America Asia Europe Europe & Central Asia Africa

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English speaking by country

Country Name 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 Samoa San Marino So Tom and Principe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovak Republic Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa Spain Sri Lanka St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines Sudan Suriname Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Syrian Arab Republic Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Timor-Leste Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Code WSM SMR STP SAU SEN SRB SYC SLE SGP SVK SVN SLB SOM ZAF ESP LKA KNA LCA VCT SDN SUR SWZ SWE CHE SYR TJK TZA THA TMP TGO TON TTO TUN TUR TKM UGA UKR ARE GBR USA Continent Asia Europe Africa Asia Africa Europe Africa Africa Asia Europe Europe Africa Africa Europe Asia America America America Africa America Africa Europe Europe Asia Asia Africa Asia Africa .. Africa Asia Europe & Central Asia Africa Europe Asia Europe America

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Country Name 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela, RB Vietnam Virgin Islands (U.S.) West Bank and Gaza Yemen, Rep. Zambia Zimbabwe Code URY UZB VUT VEN VNM VIR WBG YEM ZMB ZWE Continent America Asia Asia America Asia Asia Asia Asia Africa Africa

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Country Author Angola David Chivela Uruguay Jorge Grunberg Bolivia Felix Patzi Albania Lutfi Dervishi Chile Sergio Bitar Chile Nataly Cancino Cabello Chile Sergio Bitar Cuba Fidel Castro Dominican Republic Julio Cesar Valentin Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev Rwanda Claver Yisa Rwanda Paul Kagame Vietnam Do Huy THINH

Quotatation The English language is of particular importance in the world, it is adopted as the language of work and research in the glob Students should be graduating from high school with a bilingual education in English I dream of the possibility of forming there a trilingual bachelor who know their native language, Castilian and a foreign langu English is now recognized worldwide as an international language and the recognition of its advantages are numerous. [] Education is the wealth of Chile and English opens doors to increase that wealth Globalization, driven by the marketing processes of neoliberalism, enhanced by the media and contextualized in a postmod We know our lives are linked more than ever to an international presence, and if you can't speak English, you can't sell and Although we might not like it [The English language], it's a universal language, much easier to learn than Russian and more The President of the Chamber of Deputies, Julio Cesar Valentin, asked Secretary of Education, Melanio Paredes, investing [English] the language of successful integration into the global economy Really it is not choosing English for its own sake, This is a way to make Rwanda to be equal, to use English. English is now The movement [speaking English in Vietnam] was strongly supported by a variety of jobs offered For example, in investments. English, the use of which Democratic Republic theCongo (DRC), ato be through foreign our region apart from Burundi and the was more popular in of South, tended French speaker going to the a reason for more foreign investment there than in the North [Where Russian was more spoken].

About the author Source Director of the National Institute of Educational Development Board of regents of private universities Minister of Education http://www.almamater.cu/sitio%20nuevo/sitio%20viejo/webalmamater/universid Document found on the website of the Albanian ministry of Education http://www.mash.gov.al/shqiperia_anglofone/Shqip%C3%ABria_anglofone.doc Minister of education http://redenlaces.ucv.cl/coordinadores/seminarios/S18/Aprendiz/Desarrollo/Ane Researcher, Universidad de La Frontera http://www.cultydes.cult.cu/5/doc/205.doc Minister of education http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/29/international/americas/29letter.html?_r=2&s Head of state http://www.verbivore.com/arcartcl.htm President of the chamber of deputees http://www.lanaciondominicana.com/ver_noticia.php?id_noticia=14083 President (Head of State) http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav030707a.shtml Director of policy planning at the education ministry http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/jan/16/rwanda-english-genocide Head of State (President) http://allafrica.com/stories/200810150230.html Vietnamese TESOL Association http://www.elicos.edu.au/index.cgi?E=hcatfuncs&PT=sl&X=getdoc&Lev1=pub_c

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Program / Description Project Cradle Program English opens doors

Enciclomedia Trinity of languages TEAM Getting support from Pakistan to improve the level of english (http://www.akdn.org/syria_education.asp) English Opens Doors The English for Work and Study Project

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