[simongray]

I mean... 20% is not really a lot. It's probably a lot closer to 100% in most countries of the world.

[mslansn]

Is it? That doesn’t sound right.

[pjc50]

Depends. English first language countries remain mostly monolingual. But the rest divides into:

- educated people are expected to learn English in school and end up consuming English media anyway (where you'd expect >50% multilingual, but not everyone)

- country has many official languages (many people are multilingual, but not necessarily in English; e.g. India, Indonesia, possibly China)

- country has literacy problems (not so many left now, maybe in sub-Saharan Africa)

- proud monoglots of a language that isn't English: Japan, France (but even here a lot of people consume English media anyway)

[matsemann]

90 % of Norwegians speak English according to a quick search I just did. 89 % in Sweden.

[joseda-hg]

I believe the more damning thing is, there are more multilingual english speakers than monoglots, merely by virtue of ESL being more common than Native English