Daftar negara yang menuturkan bahasa Inggris sebagai bahasa resmi

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
Bahasa inggris diakui sebagai bahasa sekunder secara de facto
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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  20. ^ "Teaching of English continued in primary,secondary and tertiary level not because it was the official language but it became the language of trade and commerce. English is the second language of the country and in many places English is more important than Bengali in Bangladesh."
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  23. ^ Spolsky, Bernard (1999). Round Table on Language and Linguistics. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. hlm. 169–70. ISBN 0-87840-132-6. In 1948, the newly independent state of Israel took over the old British regulations that had set English, Arabic, and Hebrew as official languages for Mandatory Palestine but, as mentioned, dropped English from the list. In spite of this, official language use has maintained a de facto role for English, after Hebrew but before Arabic. 
  24. ^ "About Malaysia:Language". My Government: The Government of Malaysia's Official Portal. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2013-11-09. Diakses tanggal 2016-03-20.  "English remains an active second language, and serves as the medium of instruction for maths and sciences in all public schools. Malaysian English is widely used in business, along with Manglish, which is a colloquial form of English with heavy Malay, Chinese, and Tamil influences. The government discourages the misuse of Malay and has instituted fines for public signs that mix Malay and English."
  25. ^ English is a "De facto national working language, used in government." Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2013. "Sri Lanka." Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Seventeenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online edition: https://www.ethnologue.com/country/LK.
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