- ISO 3166
AF- Main language + region
fa-AF- Currency
- AFN · Afghan Afghani
- Region
- MENAP
Afghanistan
Afghanistan has 40.1M people, and 6.5M of them are online. Persian is the most widely spoken language at 50%, one of 7 languages CLDR lists here. Persian and Pashto are official nationally, and Uzbek and Turkmen are official in part of the territory. A product shipping here defaults to fa-AF.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
6.5M
0%world median 81%100%
16% of 40.1M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$417
Higher than 0% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
10%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2021. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
7
Persian 50% · Pashto 43% · Hazaragi 5.9%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 2 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
446
Very lowVery high
Very low proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
28%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in Afghanistan
share of 40.1M people
- Persianofficial50%20.1M
- Pashtoofficial43%17.3M
- Hazaragi5.9%2.4M
- Uzbekregional4.7%1.9M
- Turkmenregional1.7%682.1K
- Parsi-Dari1.2%481.5K
- Western Balochi0.7%252.8K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.
CLDR records Persian in 9 territories and 89.2M speakers in total; Afghanistan holds 22% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Persian profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (fa-AF).
Plural categories
2
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Arabic
Bundle a Noto-class webfont that covers this script. OS defaults vary.
Reading direction
Right-to-left
Use logical CSS properties (padding-inline-start, etc.). Wrap interpolated LTR with <bdi> or FSI/PDI.
Date
۱ ثور ۱۴۰۵
Short: ۱۴۰۵/۲/۱
Time
۱۸:۳۰
Week starts Sat
Currency
؋ ۱٬۲۳۵
1,234.56 in AFN · Afghan Afghani
The engineering behind the flags: Bidirectional text: why the dollar sign wanders in an RTL string · RTL layouts: what flips and what doesn't · Font fallback: why the OS picks the wrong glyphs for this script