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Originally Posted by Dazrin
Yes, only 6% of the world at large. But, when you consider people with English as a first language (~400M), it's closer to 80% (335M/400M). Since the idiom is an English language one that seems closer to accurate.
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Minor nit is that the total population of the US may be 346M (last 2024 number I could find) but according to three pages on language statistics I've found, ~318M (~95%) speak English and ~261M (~78%) speak English as their first language so your number should be ~261/400M or ~65%.