Talk:List of countries by English-speaking population

Removed explanatory text from Philippines
I just converted the following text in the article to a comment:

"Before mistakenly correcting the percentage again, please note that there are fewer people aged 5 years or more in any country than there are people in that country, because some people are toddlers or infants. In other words, no, the numbers will not automatically add up. 63.71% is what the cited source, text above Figure 7, a report from the 2000 census, really says.  This multiplied by the 2010 census's total population over 5 produces the number in the chart.  The 2010 number comes from Philippines in Figures, 2013, Chapter 5, Demography , table 5.1 or 5.6"

I made this change for two reasons. Firstly, instructions for editors belong on the article's Talk page or in a comment, not in the body of the article itself as this was. Secondly, the author of this comment is deriving a number by combining a percentage from one source with a population figure from another source, which violates WP:SYNTH, specifically:

"Do not combine material from multiple sources to reach or imply a conclusion not explicitly stated by any source." Stephen Hui (talk) 06:30, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

Croatia has more speakers as an additional language than the total number of speakers?
Whaaaaattt????? 12qwas (talk) 06:23, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

Repeated vandalism
For some reason the page has been vandalized twice with like 80% of the countries removed for no reason. Don't know if it's racism or ignorance or just someone trying to be funny but please don't. Danielbunchie (talk) 14:59, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

Japan is missing from the chart
Where is Japan? Surakmath (talk) 18:35, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

The Gambia
The figures are probably wrong for The Gambia. Juffermans state that 71% of the urban population speaks English (https://orbilu.uni.lu/bitstream/10993/6601/1/Juffermans%202007%20If%20I%20don't%20learn%20English%20I'm%20going%20to%20suffer.pdf). Also schools are in English, except for Islamic Schools. Juffermans and McGlynn also state that "English is the official language in The Gambia and is widely spoken by young people, particularly in the urban areas" (https://orbilu.uni.lu/bitstream/10993/6177/1/JUFFERMANS%20&%20McGLYNN%202009%20A%20sociolinguistic%20profile%20of%20The%20Gambia%20SS.pdf).