The following table was compiled from information in the Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year 1995:
   
                Number of Speakers                       Country
   
      English    English       English    English
       Mother    (Lingua      Bilingual    Creole
       Tongue    Franca)
   
    224,900,000 253,410,000                           United States
     56,830,000                                       United Kingdom
     17,700,000                696,000                Canada
     15,188,000  17,300,000                           Australia
      3,620,000                                       South Africa
      3,340,000                                       Ireland
      3,205,000                150,000                New Zealand
      1,190,000                            36,000     Trinidad and Tobago
        310,000  30,000,000                           India
        240,000                                       Zimbabwe
        132,000   1,890,000                           Hong Kong
        106,000                           160,000     Belize
        100,000   6,000,000    220,000                Malaysia
        100,000                                       Spain
         87,000                                       Jersey
         85,000                                       Virgin Islands
         80,000                                       France
         70,000                                       Isle of Man
         70,000                                       Japan
         64,000                                       Guernsey
         64,000                                       Israel
         62,000                                       Bermuda
         54,000     144,000                           Guam
         32,000                                       Sweden
         28,000                           114,000     St. Lucia
         27,000                           237,000     Barbados
         26,000                                       Gibraltar
         23,000                                       Norway
         19,000                                       Puerto Rico
         18,000                                       Denmark
         15,000                                       Netherlands
                                                        Antilles
         10,000              1,820,000                Sri Lanka
         10,000                 99,000                Brunei
          8,000                                       Malta
          6,000                                       Aruba
          4,000                                       Luxembourg
          3,000                            19,000     Dominica
          2,200      41,900                           Northern Mariana Islands
          2,000      54,000                           American Samoa
          2,000                                       Macau
          2,000                                       Mauritius
          2,000                                       Monaco
          2,000                                       Seychelles
          1,000                                       Andorra
          1,000                            85,000     Western Samoa
            800      10,100                           Nauru
            500                                       Micronesia
                                           63,000     Antigua and Barbuda
                                          200,000     Bahamas
                  3,100,000                           Bangladesh
                    580,000                           Botswana
                                           40,000     Colombia
                                           66,000     Costa Rica
                    160,000                           Fiji
                                            2,000     French Guiana
                                           92,000     Grenada
                                          572,000     Guyana
                                           11,000     Honduras
                                        2,350,000     Jamaica
                  2,100,000                           Kenya
                    480,000             2,100,000     Liberia
                    490,000                           Malawi
                    130,000                           Namibia
                                           42,000     Nicaragua
                 14,000,000            33,000,000     Nigeria
                 15,000,000                           Pakistan
                                          362,000     Panama
                     60,000                           Papua New Guinea
                 36,000,000                           Philippines
                    700,000             4,400,000     Sierra Leone
                  1,097,000                           Singapore
                                           42,000     St. Kitts and Nevis
                                          109,000     St. Vincent and the
                                                            Grenadines
                    800,000                           Tanzania
                               280,000                Tunisia
                    180,000                           Uganda
                    800,000                           Zambia

For countries having a "post-creole continuum" ranging from Creole proper to standard English, the entire continuum is assigned to the Creole column. The yearbook lists the 1,190,000 speakers in Trinidad and Tobago as speaking "Trinidad English", not standard English.
   
According to this information, the number of mother-tongue English speakers in the world (not counting those in Trinidad and Tobago) is 326,652,000. 69% of these live in the United States.
  
The yearbook says: "No systematic attempt has been made to account for populations that may legitimately be described as bilingual, unless the country itself collects data on that basis".This explains, why, for example, no "English bilingual" speakers are listed for the United Kingdom, even though many native speakers of Welsh and Gaelic speak English fluently. The yearbook's full entry for the U.K. is:
   
    English       56,830,000
    Scots-Gaelic      80,000
    Welsh            560,000
    Other            950,000
   
Explaining "English (Lingua Franca)", the yearbook says: "Where a nonindigenous official or excolonial language constitutes a lingua franca of the country [...], speakers of the language as a second tongue are shown [...], even though very few may speak it as a mother tongue."

  -- Bob Cunningham