Large countries (France, Germany, Spain, Italy, UK, USA,...) have limited to no knowledge of other languages, because the people there haven't been exposed to any other language than their own.
Small countries (Switzerland, Holland, Denmark, etc.) are usually proficient in more than one language. For example, quite a few Swiss people can speak up to 4 languages, including English.
Tho, that new phenomena known as the Internet has helped to introduce new languages in the daily life. This means for example we see Europeans and Japanese learning English, or Americans/Europeans taking up Japanese lessons. But this is still an exception rather than the rule.