- ISO 3166
BY- Main language + region
ru-BY- Currency
- BYN · Belarusian Ruble
- Region
- EMEA · CIS
Belarus
Belarus has 9.5M people, and 9M of them are online. Russian is the most widely spoken language at 71%, one of 2 languages CLDR lists here. Russian and Belarusian are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to ru-BY.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
9M
0%world median 81%100%
94% of 9.5M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$10,279
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
81%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2017. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
2
Russian 71% · Belarusian 26%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 2 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
533
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 Belarus
share of 9.5M people
- Russianofficial71%6.7M
- Belarusianofficial26%2.5M
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.
CLDR records Russian in 23 territories and 201.1M speakers in total; Belarus holds 3% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Russian profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (ru-BY).
Plural categories
4
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Cyrillic
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 апреля 2026 г.
Short: 21.04.2026
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
1 234,56 Br
1,234.56 in BYN · Belarusian Ruble
The engineering behind the flags: Plural rules: why each category needs its own translation