Correct Option: A

Based on estimates of 2007, there were 365 million English native speakers which comprised 5.52 per cent of the world population. Hindi speakers were 295 millions, constitution 4.46 per cent. However, English is the second language of most of the countries of the world. When combining native and non-native speakers it is probably the most commonly spoken language in the world. Second language speakers vary greatly from 470 million to over a billion depending on how literacy or mastery is defined and measured. Linguistics professor David Crystal calculates that non-native speakers now outnumber native speakers by a ratio of 3 to 1. So, on the basis of this date, it can be conclusively established that the ratio must be 65: 35.