Question: In how many states of the Member states of the Commonwealth of Nations is English either spoken as first or second language or at least widely used?

Related documents: [0]  [DOC] The Commonwealth of Nations is a voluntary association of 52 sovereign states. Nearly all of them are former British colonies or dependencies of those colonies. [END] 
[1]  [DOC] The use of the English language in most member countries of the Commonwealth of Nations was inherited from British colonisation. English is spoken as a first or second language in most of the Commonwealth. In a few countries, such as Cyprus and Malaysia, it does not have official status, but is widely used as a lingua franca. Mozambique is an exception – although English is widely spoken there, it is a former Portuguese colony which joined the Commonwealth in 1996. [END]  
Answer: 52
52