- ISO 3166
BN- Main language + region
ms-BN- Currency
- BND · Brunei Dollar
- Region
- APAC · SEA
Brunei
Brunei has 491.9K people, and 473.7K of them are online. Malay is the most widely spoken language at 93%, one of 4 languages CLDR lists here. Malay and Malay are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to ms-BN.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
473.7K
0%world median 81%100%
96% of 491.9K people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$32,235
Higher than 75% 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
—
No Findex survey covers this territory, so payment readiness is unknown.
Languages
4
Malay 93% · Traditional Chinese 11% · Malay 5%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 2 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
—
Not in the EF EPI 2025 table. Absent is not the same as low.
Adult literacy
95%
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 Brunei
share of 491.9K people
- Malayofficial93%457.5K
- Traditional Chinese11%54.1K
- Malayofficial5%24.6K
- English1.6%7.9K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.
CLDR records Malay in 5 territories and 40.2M speakers in total; Brunei holds 1% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Malay profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (ms-BN).
Plural categories
1
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text. One form fits every count here.
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: 21/04/26
Time
6:30 PTG
Week starts Mon
Currency
$ 1.234,56
1,234.56 in BND · Brunei Dollar