- ISO 3166
BA- Main language + region
bs-BA- Currency
- BAM · Bosnia-Herzegovina Convertible Mark
- Region
- EMEA
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Bosnia & Herzegovina has 3.8M people, and 3.3M of them are online. Bosnian is the most widely spoken language at 99%, one of 6 languages CLDR lists here. Bosnian, Bosnian, and Croatian are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to bs-BA.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
3.3M
0%world median 81%100%
86% of 3.8M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$10,382
Higher than 52% 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
77%
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
6
Bosnian 99% · Bosnian 99% · English 45%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 5 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
591
Very lowVery high
High 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
98%
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%.
CLDR also records diaspora populations, so a language reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (bs-BA).
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. april 2026.
Short: 21. 4. 2026.
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
1.234,56 KM
1,234.56 in BAM · Bosnia-Herzegovina Convertible Mark