<P> Approximately 330 to 360 million people speak English as their first language . The United States has the most native speakers at 258 million . Additionally, there are 62 million native English speakers in the United Kingdom, 32 million in Canada, 20 million in Australia, and 4.5 million in New Zealand . Other countries also use English as their primary and official languages . </P> <P> English is the third largest language by number of native speakers, after Mandarin and Spanish . </P>

Percentage of native english speakers in the world