@spectre @Tfmonkey
Start taking into account these populations:
1. BRICS: 3.22B people as of 2021 (https://www.statista.com/statistics/254205/total-population-of-the-bric-countries/). That's 40% of the global population, though mostly non-English speaking. About to go gangbusters.

2. The British CommonWealth: 2.5B people (https://thecommonwealth.org/about/facts) . Mostly English-speaking. Established. Includes India, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Pakistan, South Africa and others.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Commonwealth_of_Nations_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)