You might be surprised. Population of US: 300m, South Africa 50m, Canada 35m (but not all of those are English-speaking), Australia 20, New Zealand <5, Ireland

You might be surprised. Population of US: 300m, South Africa 50m, Canada 35m (but not all of those are English-speaking), Australia 20, New Zealand <5, Ireland <5, UK: 65m. You can cut this multiple ways. So, the UK is the second largest English-speaking country by population. Also, you could say that around 1 in 7 of the English speaking world is from the UK (and that's a lot). And that's before we consider the ridiculous amount of power and wealth the British Empire had, and just plain history. It's not entirely surprising to see the UK cropping up almost everywhere.