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Re:OpenStreetMap charts a controversial new direction by jobigoud on Saturday February 20, 2021 @03:09AM (#26202499)
> the largest collection of English speakers on the planet

Indians?

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Re:OpenStreetMap charts a controversial new direction by phobosanomaly on Saturday February 20, 2021 @03:26AM (#26202576)
I wikipedia'd it before I posted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s...

United States - Total English Speakers: 283,160,411

India - Total English Speakers: 246,344,737

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Re:OpenStreetMap charts a controversial new direction by jobigoud on Saturday February 20, 2021 @06:14AM (#26203328)
In that article the Indian pop is from the 2001 census at 1,028 M. Current population is 1,388 M, keeping the same percentage of English speakers would place it at +305M speakers, although doing the same for USA also place it at +310M.

That being said I think the table is wrong because the numbers don't add up to the total and also don't match the source. Based on that census India should have only 12.18% of English speakers, not 22.18%, so you should be correct in any cases.

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