2nd largest population of English speakers by country?

[Xipe Totec]

So the US has the largest population of English speakers. Care to guess which is #2?

No fair peeking at Google until after you make an educated guess. Be honest. This will be fun.

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	Canada
	0 (0%)
	United Kingdom
	0 (0%)
	Australia
	0 (0%)
	Germany
	1 (17%)
	France
	0 (0%)
	India
	5 (83%)
	Pakistan
	0 (0%)
	Phillipines
	0 (0%)
	Nigeria
	0 (0%)
	Bangladesh
	0 (0%)
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[PDJane]

1. followed very closely by china.

[Xipe Totec]

3. The top 10 are on the list.

[PDJane]

8. |And china is right after the top ten.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

2. My first guess would have been China, which isn't an option. N.T.

[Xipe Totec]

7. Dang! That would have been an excellent ruse! nt

[Donald Ian Rankin]

9. Frankly, India surprised me.

It was obviously going to be one of the two - 10% of the population of either is probably more than the population of any first-language-English state, although I'd have to check that to be certain.

But there are about equal numbers of people in each, and I'm kind of surprised that a higher proportion of Indians than Chinese speak English. Possibly my mental image of China is based too much on the cities and not enough on the rural areas.

[Laelth]

4. I am reminded of the Kumars ...

... who proudly announce that their own, sub-continental English IS BBC English.

Funny show.

-Laelth

[treestar]

5. Fascinating

especially the number of countries with numbers higher than the UK

[treestar]

6. Also interesting, change the chart to be in order of percentages

of people in a given country who speak English. In some countries with other languages for a main language, still more than half the people speak English.