A study was done by Global English, an English language instruction company in California with clients such as Cisco, General Motors and Procter and Gamble, with 108,000 employees in 216 companies in 76 countries.  The tests, conducted in 2011, included comprehension of English, and its usage in various media such as e-mail, phone, presentations.

The Philippines emerged at the top of the countries that were studied garnering the intermediate level (7.11), followed by Norway (6.54), Estonia (6.45), Serbia (6.38), Slovenia (6.19), Australia, Malaysia, India, Lithuania, Singapore and Canada. The worst performing countries were Armenia, Cote d’Ivoire, Taiwan, Honduras, Colombia, Chile, El Salvador, Saudi Arabia, Israel and Brazil, reports Philippine Daily Inquirer