Keywords: English dialects1997.png English dialects1997 svg Pie chart showing the relative numbers of native English speakers in the major English-speaking countries of the world I've created this diagram as an update for http //en wikipedia org/wiki/Image English_dialects png The previous chart didn't take into account several varieties which is why the Others percentage was too small Source data 1997 from British council study http //www britishcouncil org/english/pdf/future pdf The future of English page 10 The previous chart was from 1995 the current one from 1997 I've been looking for newer sources but couldn't find any The British Council report from 2000 seems to be the newest and most reliable source Dumbledore 12 08 30 Mar 2005 UTC Data only true native speakers American British Canadian Australian Other Total Percentage 67 2 16 9 5 8 4 5 5 5 100 0 Absolute 000s 226 710 56 990 19 700 15 316 18 581 337 297 1 date/time username edit summary ---- 02 43 9 September 2005 en User Michael Shields <nowiki> punctuation </nowiki> ---- 14 26 1 April 2005 en User 203 164 184 141 <nowiki> fix alignment and order as in graph </nowiki> ---- 12 10 1 April 2005 en User 203 164 184 141 <nowiki> English Wikipedia use full stops not commas </nowiki> ---- 08 11 1 April 2005 en User Dumbledore <nowiki></nowiki> ---- 03 06 31 March 2005 en User Dumbledore <nowiki></nowiki> ---- 12 26 30 March 2005 en User Dumbledore <nowiki></nowiki> ---- 12 08 30 March 2005 en User Dumbledore <nowiki></nowiki> ---- 09 11 30 March 2005 en User Dumbledore <nowiki> I've created this diagram as an update for http //en wikipedia org/wiki/Image English_dialects png The previous diagram didn't take into account several varieties which is why the Others percentage was too small Source data 1997 from British cou </nowiki> Original upload log Legend cur this is the current file del delete this old version rev revert to this old version Click on date to download the file or see the image uploaded on that date del cur 09 11 30 March 2005 en User Dumbledore Dumbledore en User_talk Dumbledore Talk 250x180 17069 bytes I've created this diagram as an update for http //en wikipedia org/wiki/Image English_dialects png The previous diagram didn't take into account several varieties which is why the Others percentage was too small Source data 1997 from British cou English dialects Pie charts |