The English-speaking world consists of those countries or regions that use the English language to one degree or another.  The English-speaking world. Countries in dark blue have a majority of native speakers. Countries in light blue have English as an official language, de jure or de facto. [edit] Number of native speakers by country | Country | Native speakers | | 1 |  United States | 214,809,000[1] | | 2 |  United Kingdom | 58,200,000[2] | | 3 |  Canada | 18,232,195[3] | | 4 |  Australia | 15,581,334[4] | | 5 |  Ireland | 4,400,000[5] | | 6 |  South Africa | 3,673,203[6] | | 7 |  New Zealand | 3,500,000+ (approx.)[7] | | 8 |  Philippines | 3,427,000[8] | | 9 |  Jamaica | 2,600,000+ (approx.)[9] | | 10 |  Singapore | 884,418[10] | [edit] See also Lists: [edit] References - ^ "U.S. Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2003, Section 1 Population" (pdf). U.S. Census Bureau. pp. 59 pages. http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/06statab/pop.pdf. Table 47 gives the figure of 214,809,000 for those five years old and over who speak exclusively English at home. Based on the American Community Survey, these results exclude those living communally (such as college dormitories, institutions, and group homes), and by definition exclude native English speakers who speak more than one language at home.
- ^ The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, Second Edition, Crystal, David; Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, [1995] (2003-08-03).
- ^ Population by mother tongue and age groups, 2006 counts, for Canada, provinces and territories – 20% sample data, Census 2006, Statistics Canada.
- ^ [1] Main Language Spoken at Home. The figure is the number of people who only speak English at home.
- ^ http://www.cso.ie/releasespublications/documents/population/current/popmig.pdf
- ^ Census in Brief, page 15 (Table 2.5), 2001 Census, Statistics South Africa.
- ^ Languages spoken, 2006 Census, Statistics New Zealand. No figure is given for the number of native speakers, but it would be somewhere between the number of people who spoke English only (3,008,058) and the total number of English speakers (3,673,623), if one ignores the 197,187 people who did not provide a usable answer.
- ^ http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=PH.
- ^ [2]
- ^ "Table 20 Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Age Group, Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home and Sex" (pdf), General Household Survey 2005 Statistical Release 1: Socio-Demographic and Economic Characteristics (Government of Singapore), http://www.singstat.gov.sg/pubn/popn/ghsr1/t20-24.pdf, retrieved 2009-11-11
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