Country Switches Ranks with 2017 Number One, The Netherlands: The people of Sweden are better at speaking English than any other non-English speaking nation, according to the 8th edition of the EF English Proficiency Index (EPI) eking out the residents of The Netherland, who held the distinction in last year’s rankings. The EF EPI, which tests, measures and ranks 88 nations on their English proficiency, is based on test data from more than 1,300,000 test takers around the world who took the EF Standard English Test (EF SET) in 2017.
A REMINDER: The INBOUND Report will not publish next week due to the Thanksgiving Holiday in the U.S. It will resume publishing the following week, with the Nov. 29, 2018 issue.
