It depends upon fluency degree. Only English schools graduates and English studies university graduates are fluent English speakers. Other graduates fluency ranges from unable to hardly communicating while most of people have little or no idea about English. In countryside, it is very rare to find a person speaks English to a satisfactory level. This is the real situation.

Here in Egypt English is very common in the most of it's city. As we study it in schools since we were child.

you can say english is the second language in egypt ,it"s very common i am egyptian and english speaker from small city called port said