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The United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, where the overwhelming majority of native English speakers reside, do not have English as an official language de jure, but English is considered their de facto official language because it dominates in these countries. [citation needed]
English: English is widely taught as a foreign language, with some large private schools providing English instruction. Taiwan's government under the 2030 Bilingual Nation policy promulgated last 2017 to make English an official language and to provide for English to become a second language by 2030.
President Lai Ching-te, the main proponent of the 2030 Bilingual Nation policy.. 2030 Bilingual Nation (Traditional Chinese: 2030雙語國家; pinyin: 2030 Shuāngyǔ Guójiā; Wade–Giles: 2030 Shuang 1-yü 3 Kuo 2-chia 1; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: 2030 Siang-gí Kok-ka; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: 2030 Sûng-ngî Koet-kâ) is a policy in Taiwan promulgated by the Tsai Ing-wen and Lai Ching-te presidential ...
List of languages by number of native speakers; List of languages by total number of speakers; List of languages by the number of countries in which they are recognized as an official language; List of official languages by country and territory; Linguistic diversity index
Taiwan's government says the Republic of China is a sovereign state and that Beijing has no right to speak for or represent it given the People's Republic of China has no say in how it chooses its ...
The European Union is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total English-speaking population of the European Union and the United Kingdom combined (2012) is 256,876,220 [70] (out of a total population of 500,000,000, [71] i.e. 51%) including 65,478,252 native speakers and 191,397,968 non-native speakers, and would be ranked 2nd if it were included.
The Canadian province of Quebec, (7.9% English-speaking) [citation needed] Note: Quebec's largest city, Montreal, is a multilingual city with half the population having French as their mother tongue, and the other half having other languages (including English) as their mother tongue (see Language demographics of Quebec).
This is a list of official languages by country and territory. It includes all languages that have official language status either statewide or in a part of the state, or that have status as a national language , regional language , or minority language .