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6,912
The number of languages spoken in the world today.
(Source: www.ethnologue.com)

84.9
Percentage of internet users that speak one of the top 10 global languages.
(Source: www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm).

225,000
Estimated number of translators and interpreters in the world.
(Industry estimate from worldwide market size)

41.9
There are over 41.9 million immigrants living in Europe.
(Source: MigrationInformation.Org)

183
In 2006, there were 183 billion minutes of international telephone traffic.
(Source: International Telecommunications Union)

46.1
In inner London, 46.1 per cent of Local Authority maintained secondary school pupils did not have English as a first language (2005).

(Source: Statistics of Schools in London: Key Facts 2001-2005 DMAG Briefing 2005-41)
*Figures based on UK Office of National Statistics.

In 2006 over 30 million foreign nationals visited Britain, and British people made 66 million foreign trips.
An estimated 6 million Limited English speakers currently live in the UK.