- ISO 3166
BT- Main language + region
dz-BT- Currency
- BTN · Bhutanese Ngultrum
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Bhutan
Bhutan has 884.5K people, and 807.4K of them are online. Dzongkha is the most widely spoken language at 47%, one of 5 languages CLDR lists here. Dzongkha is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to dz-BT.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
807.4K
0%world median 81%100%
91% of 884.5K people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$4,493
Higher than 32% 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
34%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2014. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
5
Dzongkha 47% · Nepali 17% · Tshangla 15%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
473
Very lowVery high
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
53%
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 (dz-BT).
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
སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༦ ཟླ་བཞི་པ་ ཚེས་ ༢༡
Short: ༢༠༢༦-༠༤-༢༡
Time
༦:༣༠ ཕྱི་ཆ་
Week starts Sun
Currency
Nu. ༡,༢༣༤.༥༦
1,234.56 in BTN · Bhutanese Ngultrum