- ISO 3166
AL- Main language + region
sq-AL- Currency
- ALL · Albanian Lek
- Region
- EMEA
Albania
Albania has 3.1M people, and 2.7M of them are online. Albanian is the most widely spoken language at 100%, one of 3 languages CLDR lists here. Albanian is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to sq-AL.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
2.7M
0%world median 81%100%
86% of 3.1M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$12,998
Higher than 56% 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
46%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
3
Albanian 100% · Greek 1.9% · Macedonian 0.5%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
532
Very lowVery high
Moderate 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
97%
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 Albania
share of 3.1M people
- Albanianofficial100%3.1M
- Greek1.9%59K
- Macedonian0.5%14.6K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.
CLDR records Albanian in 5 territories and 6.8M speakers in total; Albania holds 46% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Albanian profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (sq-AL).
Plural categories
2
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21 prill 2026
Short: 21.4.26
Time
6:30 m.d.
Week starts Mon
Currency
1235 Lekë
1,234.56 in ALL · Albanian Lek