Number of native English speakers in India 1971-2011

Published by
Manya Rathore,
Jul 10, 2023
The statistic displays the number of native English speakers in India from 1971 to 2011. About 260 thousand Indians recognized English as their mother-tongue according to the 2011 census, up from about 226.5 thousand speakers in the census of 2001.

Number of English-speaking natives across India from 1971 to 2011 (in 1,000s)*

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Release date

2018

Region

India

Survey time period

1971 to 2011

Supplementary notes

*The figures reflect the number of speakers who speak the language as their mother tongue.

Values have been rounded.

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