Statistics

Every test taken here comes from somewhere. This is what 4,601 of them look like on a map.

Tap a country for its figures.
Average words known under 6,000 6,000–9,000 9,000–12,000 12,000–15,000 15,000+ under 5 results · dots are places too small to draw
English-speaking countries
19,000
6 countries, 565 people
Everywhere else
8,000
64 countries, 3,962 people

The ranking

The grey figure after each average is how far it could reasonably be off, given how many people from that country have completed the test. Where two of those ranges overlap, the order between them is not a real finding.

CountryAveragePeople
1 Latvia 25,000 ±5,400 8
2 Belgium 23,800 ±8,200 8
3 Romania 22,800 ±5,700 14
4 Israel 22,200 ±6,300 10
5 Bulgaria 21,700 ±4,700 15
6 United Kingdom  NATIVE 21,500 ±2,500 97
7 Ireland  NATIVE 21,300 ±5,000 14
8 Denmark 21,300 ±12,100 6
9 Austria 21,300 ±4,800 24
10 Finland 21,100 ±4,600 20
11 Philippines 20,000 ±6,300 11
12 Hungary 19,700 ±7,400 12
13 Italy 19,500 ±3,400 35
14 Portugal 19,400 ±13,900 6
15 Norway 19,300 ±5,500 19
16 Greece 19,300 ±7,900 6
17 Sweden 19,000 ±3,300 37
18 Canada  NATIVE 18,900 ±3,200 62
19 Slovakia 18,800 ±6,800 10
20 Netherlands 18,600 ±2,900 60
21 United States  NATIVE 18,500 ±1,400 349
22 Australia  NATIVE 17,200 ±3,900 36
23 Bangladesh 17,100 ±4,600 15
24 France 17,000 ±2,800 60
25 Germany 16,400 ±2,400 80
26 Argentina 15,300 ±8,800 7
27 Pakistan 15,000 ±18,800 6
28 New Zealand  NATIVE 14,900 ±8,800 7
29 Poland 14,600 ±3,300 45
30 Belarus 14,600 ±8,500 8
31 United Arab Emirates 14,600 ±7,100 7
32 Indonesia 14,400 ±7,600 10
33 Switzerland 13,900 ±6,000 15
34 Spain 13,500 ±3,100 50
35 Malaysia 13,400 ±5,900 14
36 Brazil 13,300 ±3,600 36
37 Russia 12,800 ±2,900 35
38 Thailand 12,100 ±8,200 9
39 Georgia 11,900 ±9,800 5
40 India 11,700 ±3,300 58
41 South Korea 10,500 ±6,800 13
42 Kyrgyzstan 10,200 ±9,200 7
43 Türkiye 10,100 ±2,200 50
44 Algeria 9,900 ±9,500 6
45 Costa Rica 9,900 ±3,400 47
46 Czechia 9,800 ±2,700 38
47 Lebanon 8,600 ±6,900 5
48 Singapore 8,500 ±2,300 44
49 Morocco 8,500 ±5,200 10
50 Venezuela 8,500 ±6,100 6
51 Mexico 8,100 ±2,700 52
52 Japan 7,900 ±2,200 55
53 Iran 7,800 ±4,200 15
54 Vietnam 7,600 ±2,100 50
55 Hong Kong 7,300 ±1,900 72
56 Egypt 7,100 ±6,500 11
57 El Salvador 6,800 ±4,000 6
58 Ukraine 6,800 ±2,000 51
59 Taiwan 6,800 ±2,000 38
60 Jordan 5,600 ±3,200 11
61 Kazakhstan 5,500 ±2,700 21
62 China 5,400 ±200 2,456
63 Saudi Arabia 5,300 ±3,100 19
64 Peru 5,300 ±3,700 17
65 Colombia 5,100 ±2,300 45
66 Uzbekistan 4,900 ±1,400 25
67 Azerbaijan 4,400 ±3,200 6
68 Iraq 4,200 ±3,400 10
69 Dominican Republic 3,300 ±1,800 8
70 Ecuador 1,600 ±900 7

114 countries have taken the test; 70 of them have the 5 results needed to appear above. Everyone else is on the map in grey. Repeat visitors are counted once, by their network address, so one enthusiast cannot move a country.

What this is not

It is not a measure of how well countries speak English. The people here are the ones who went looking for an English vocabulary test, which is a very particular sort of person, and a different sort in each country. Somewhere that only keen students find this site will beat somewhere everybody tries it, and that tells you about the visitors rather than the place.

Network addresses place people roughly. A VPN puts someone in the wrong country entirely, offices and mobile networks can resolve to a head office far from the user, and small countries are the ones this hurts most. Nothing here is precise enough to argue over a few hundred words.

Location from the DB-IP IP-to-Country Lite database (CC BY 4.0). Country outlines from Natural Earth, public domain.