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I wikipedia'd it before I posted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s...

United States - Total English Speakers: 283,160,411

India - Total English Speakers: 246,344,737

In that article the Indian pop is from the 2001 census at 1,028 M. Current population is 1,388 M, keeping the same percentage of English speakers would place it at +305M speakers, although doing the same for USA also place it at +310M.

That being said I think the table is wrong because the numbers don't add up to the total and also don't match the source. Based on that census India should have only 12.18% of English speakers, not 22.18%, so you should be correct in any cases.

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