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    2. Lucky_Wolf on

      It’s based on self-reported levels of English ability, a few examples in the original data:

      Barbados 100% Iceland 98% New Zealand 97,82% United States 95,29%

      South Sudan: 94% Sudan: 93.7% Australia: 92,8% Canada 83,06%

      Not only is the data self assessed (every person and country has their own idea on what “speak English” means, but it also seems to be small samples sizes, resulting in outliers.

      Us living in the nordics can say it looks weird 100% of Icelandics can speak English but below 90% in Sweden & Denmark. Also higher than NZ & US

    6. SebaHigh on

      Map Porn use to be really cool and impressive maps, de real definition of map porn, no its full with these non-sense crap, could be something like different languages and percentage tiers all color coded that would be cool.

    14. Civil_Variation_4474 on

      I would not say that Australians can speak english.

      Their language is based on the fact that they cannot speak english

    16. Accidental-Genius on

      I call bullshit.

      I have spent a significant amount of time in the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden in the past 4 years, not just in the cities, and I haven’t run into more than a handful of people who can’t speak English.

      This looks like a map of countries who prefer to speak English rather than a map of who can speak English.

      Also, the official language of Belize is English.

    17. NeedModdingHelp1531 on

      A lot of countries which should be on a map like this, but arent are because they are on high 80s.

    19. Lychee_Fearless on

      Where are the little blue specks for the Caribbean islands? I zoomed in on Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago and there were no blue specks!

    20. adelaarvaren on

      I was looking for Malta, as English is one of the official languages, but a search shows only 88%….

    21. stmaryriver on

      The statistics for Canada (probably elsewhere too) are persons who “*have the ability to conduct a conversation in English.”* For Quebec, it is about 52%; as a whole, Canada is 87%.

    23. casual_redditor69 on

      Why is the percentage so high in Zimbabwe, but not in other former British colonies in South Africa?

    25. Busy-Scientist3851 on

      Dutch speak English so well it’s hard to tell at times they’re not native English speakers.

    27. pabo81 on

      Ghana and Belize official language is English – they don’t get up to 90% speakers?

    28. HopefulCarry9693 on

      Yeah.. i’ve been working in Norway for the past 18 months, and lived in the Netherlands for 30 years.. this map seems wrong