estimate that the number of English speakers in Brazil to between 7 million to 8 million English speakers as of July 2016. The publication UOL wrote an <a href="http://vocesa.uol.com.br/noticias/carreira/por-que-ainda-nao-somos-fluentes-em-ingles.phtml#.V4d08rgrK00" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank" class="external_link" data-qt-tooltip="uol.com.br" data-tooltip="attached" style="background-image: url("//qsf.ec.quoracdn.net/-3-images.new_grid.external_link.svg-26-d2ea5915bda62627.svg"); background-position: right 0.3em; background-size: 10.5px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(43, 109, 173); padding-right: 15px;">article in January 2016 </a>that cited 5 percent of Brazil’s population spoke a second language. Only 3 percent of Brazil’s population speaks English fluently, 6.18 million people, meaning they use proper written and spoken English grammar and spelling in a professional environment.
IBGE, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistic, has a population counter that estimates Brazil’s current population to be<a href="http://www.ibge.gov.br/apps/populacao/projecao/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank" class="external_link" data-qt-tooltip="ibge.gov.br" style="background-image: url("//qsf.ec.quoracdn.net/-3-images.new_grid.external_link.svg-26-d2ea5915bda62627.svg"); background-position: right 0.3em; background-size: 10.5px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(43, 109, 173); padding-right: 15px;"> 206.1 million</a> people. If you take 5% of 206 million, you get 10.3 million people that speak a second language. My observation is that a lot of people speak Spanish as a second language so I bumped the number of English speakers down.
Most of the English speakers will be concentrated in the capitals of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and the Brazilian capital Brasília. In São Paulo, the most fluent English speakers I have met have been from the western zone and work along Avenida Paulista or a major Brazilian or multinational firm.
