Terdapat 61 negara di keenam benua yang menjadikan bahasa inggris sebagai bahasa resmi negara. Meskipun demikian, Britania Raya dan Amerika Serikat sebagai dua negara kiblat utama, tidak menjadikan bahasa inggris sebagai bahasa resmi secara hukum ( de jure ) melainkan hanya dalam pengakuan umum ( de facto ).
Bahasa inggris diakui sebagai bahasa resmi secara de jure
| Negara | Benua | Populasi |
|---|---|---|
Afrika Selatan
[
1
]
|
Afrika | 47.850.700 |
Antigua dan Barbuda
[
2
]
|
Amerika Utara | 85.000 |
Bahama
|
Amerika Utara | 331.000 |
Barbados
[
3
]
|
Amerika Utara | 294.000 |
Belize
[
4
]
|
Amerika Tengah | 288.000 |
Botswana
|
Afrika | 1.882.000 |
Dominika
|
Amerika Utara | 73.000 |
Fiji
|
Oseania | 827.900 |
Filipina
[
5
]
|
Asia | 90.457.200 |
Gambia
|
Afrika | 1.709.000 |
Ghana
|
Afrika | 23.478.000 |
Grenada
|
Amerika Utara | 106.000 |
Guyana
[
6
]
|
Amerika Selatan | 738.000 |
India
|
Asia | 1.143.540.000 |
Irlandia
|
Eropa | 4.517.800 |
Jamaika
[
7
]
|
Amerika Utara | 2.714.000 |
Kamerun
|
Afrika | 18.549.000 |
Kanada
|
Amerika Utara | 33.531.000 |
Kenya
|
Afrika | 37.538.000 |
Kiribati
|
Oseania | 95.000 |
Lesotho
|
Afrika | 2.008.000 |
Liberia
|
Afrika | 3.750.000 |
Malawi
[
8
]
|
Afrika | 13.925.000 |
Malta
|
Eropa | 412.600 |
Kepulauan Marshall
|
Oseania | 59.000 |
Mauritius
|
Afrika | 1.262.000 |
Mikronesia
|
Oseania | 111.000 |
Namibia
|
Afrika | 2.074.000 |
Nauru
[
9
]
|
Oseania | 10.000 |
Nigeria
[
10
]
|
Afrika | 148.093.000 |
Pakistan
|
Asia | 165.449.000 |
Palau
|
Oseania | 20.000 |
Papua New Guinea
[
11
]
[
12
]
|
Oseania | 6.331.000 |
Rwanda
|
Afrika | 9.725.000 |
Saint Kitts and Nevis
[
13
]
|
Amerika Utara | 50.000 |
Saint Lucia
|
Amerika Utara | 165.000 |
Saint Vincent dan Grenadines
[
14
]
|
Amerika Utara | 120.000 |
Samoa
[
15
]
|
Oseania | 188.359 |
Selandia Baru
|
Oseania | 4.294.350 |
Seychelles
|
Afrika | 87.000 |
Sierra Leone
|
Afrika | 5.866.000 |
Singapura
[
16
]
|
Asia | 4.839.400 |
Kepulauan Solomon
|
Oseania | 506.992 |
Sudan
|
Afrika | 38.560.000 |
Swaziland
|
Afrika | 1.141.000 |
Tanzania
|
Afrika | 40.454.000 |
Tonga
[
17
]
|
Oseania | 100.000 |
Trinidad dan Tobago
|
Amerika Utara | 1.333.000 |
Tuvalu
|
Oseania | 11.000 |
Uganda
|
Afrika | 30.884.000 |
Vanuatu
[
18
]
|
Oseania | 226.000 |
Yordania
|
Asia | 6.407.058 |
Zambia
|
Afrika | 11.922.000 |
Zimbabwe
|
Afrika | 13.349.000 |
Bahasa inggris diakui sebagai bahasa resmi secara de facto
| Negara | Benua | Populasi |
|---|---|---|
Australia
[
19
]
|
Oseania | 22.374.370 |
Britania Raya
(
UK
)
|
Eropa | 61.612.300 |
Amerika Serikat
(AS)
|
Amerika Utara | 309.442.000 |
| Negara | Benua | Populasi |
|---|---|---|
Bangladesh
[
20
]
|
Asia | 150.039.000 |
Brunei
[
21
]
[
22
]
|
Asia | 415.717 |
Eritrea
|
Afrika | 6.234.000 |
Ethiopia
|
Afrika | 85.000.000 |
Israel
[
23
]
|
Asia | 8.051.200 |
Malaysia
[
24
]
|
Asia | 30.018.242 |
Sri Lanka
[
25
]
[
26
]
|
Asia | 20.277.597 |
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