Global Seal Statistics
The Global Seal of Biliteracy has credentialed thousands around the world for their bilingual language skills at one of our three levels of certification as evidenced through proficiency-based testing. The graphics below tell the story of our diverse recipients since our inception in 2018.
Where is the Global Seal of Biliteracy?
In the United States
The Global Seal of Biliteracy has been awarded in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. This chart shows a heat map of Global Seals awarded in the United States. The dark green indicates states where the highest number of certificates have been issued, and yellow the least.
Around the World
The Global Seal of Biliteracy has been issued in over 60 Countries/Territories, as shown on the map in dark green.
Fluency Level Breakdown
The Global Seal of Biliteracy is available for individuals of any age as long as they meet our requirements. The Global Seal of Biliteracy offers three tiers of certifications on either the ACTFL or CEFR scale.
Functional Fluency
Working Fluency
Professional Fluency
The majority of certifications are at the Functional Fluency level which corresponds to the largest demographic, High School and University students.
Languages
The Global Seal of Biliteracy offers a pathway to certification in over 120 languages. The languages listed below are the languages that we have certified since the inception of the Global Seal in November of 2018.
- Albanian
- American Sign Language
- Amharic
- Angami
- Arabic
- Armenian
- Bengali
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Burmese
- Cabo Verdean
- Cantonese
- Chinese
- Chuukese
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dari
- Dinka
- Dutch
- English
- Filipino
- French
- Georgian
- German
- Greek
- Gujarati
- Haitian-Creole
- Hakha Chin
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hmong
- Hungarian
- Igbo
- Ilocano
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Kannada
- Kazakh
- Korean
- Kurdish
- Lao
- Latin
- Lithuanian
- Macedonian
- Malayalam
- Mandarin
- Marathi
- Marshallese
- Nepali
- Norwegian
- Oromo
- Pashto
- Persian Farsi
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Punjabi
- Romanian
- Russian
- Samoan
- Serbian
- Slovakian
- Somali
- Somali Maxaa
- Spanish
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thai
- Tigrinya
- Turkish
- Turkmen
- Twi
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Uzbek
- Vietnamese
Demographics
Recipient Demographics
All Global Seal of Biliteracy recipients fall into four main demographic groups;
Middle School/Jr. High
High School
College/University
Adult
At the time of this writing the vast majority of Global Seals are issued to High School students with the second most being given to College and University students as shown in the graph.
U.S. English Language Learner Breakdown
In the U.S. only all Global Seal recipients must demonstrate English proficiency in their first or second language of certification. This chart indicates the distributions of Global Seal recipients based on their English Learner (EL) status. This chart primarily indicates the distribution of Global Seal recipients in primary and secondary schools.