ENGLISH IN NUMBERS
According to a statistic done by the British Council, nowadays, there are minimum 75 countries in the world which use English or have it as a secondary language.
The British Council has done some research and has found out that, currently, there are 375 million people all over the world who have English as their first language. Also, there are a lot of people who speak English but not as their mother language, but as a foreign language instead.
Only a quarter of the global population can speak fluent English and the demand of the other three quarters is increasing reasonably.
Moving to the society side, only two of every three scientists can read in English, three of every four emails are written in English and the 80% of the worldwide information stoke up in digital format is in English too.
As you see, English is the most important language around the world. It’s the #1 in books, airports, business, science, technology, diplomacy, sports, music and adverts stuff.
So come on! Improve your English level!
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