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GoUK.com's Market - English Statistics
English has a special/official status in more than 75 countries, totalling in excess of two billion people
More than 25 percent of the world's population speaks English - with varying degrees of competence
Nearly 50 percent of EU citizens can speak English
English is spoken as a:
first language by around 375 million people
second language by around another 375 million people
foreign language by around 750 million people
More than 66 percent of the world's scientists read in English
More than 75 percent of the world's correspondence is written in English
More than 80 percent of all the world's electronic information is stored in English
More than 80 percent of Internet users communicate in English
At any one moment there are 120,000 people studying English at British Council centres alone
This year over one billion people will learn English
More than 600,000 overseas students come to the UK each year to learn English
In total, those 600,000 students spend in excess of (GBP) £1 billion a year in the UK
The UK's English language products are worth over (GBP) £900 million a year to the UK
English is the main language of
academic conferences and research
advertising and marketing
airports and air-traffic control
books
diplomacy
international business
international competitions
Internet and email
newspapers
pop music
science
sport
technology
GoUK.com is read by tens of thousands of people worldwide every month
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