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ISO 3166
AM
Main language + region
hy-AM
Currency
AMD · Armenian Dram
Region
EMEA · CIS

Armenia

Armenia has 3M people, and 2.4M of them are online. Armenian is the most widely spoken language at 99%, one of 4 languages CLDR lists here. Armenian is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to hy-AM.

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Market summary

Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.

People online

2.4M

0%world median 81%100%

81% of 3M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.

Income per person

$9,474

Higher than 50% 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

71%

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

4

Armenian 99% · Russian 65% · Kurdish 3.3%

Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.

English proficiency

515

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

100%

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 Armenia

share of 3M people

Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.

CLDR records Armenian in 7 territories and 5.4M speakers in total; Armenia holds 55% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Armenian profile maps the whole footprint.

Day-one requirements

What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (hy-AM).

Plural categories

2

Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".

Script family

Other

Bundle a Noto-class webfont that covers this script. OS defaults vary.

Reading direction

Left-to-right

Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.

Date

21 ապրիլի, 2026 թ.

Short: 21.04.26

Time

18:30

Week starts Mon

Currency

1234,56 ֏

1,234.56 in AMD · Armenian Dram

Engineering note · Armenian. Armenian alphabet.

The engineering behind the flags: Font fallback: why the OS picks the wrong glyphs for this script