- ISO 3166
CA- Main language + region
en-CA- Currency
- CAD · Canadian Dollar
- Region
- NAM
Canada
Canada has 38.8M people, and 36.6M of them are online. English is the most widely spoken language at 87%, one of 34 languages CLDR lists here. English and French are official nationally, and Inuktitut and Inuktitut are official in part of the territory. A product shipping here defaults to en-CA.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
36.6M
0%world median 81%100%
94% of 38.8M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$55,698
Higher than 86% 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
98%
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
34
English 87% · French 29% · Spanish 3.2%
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
99%
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 Canada
share of 38.8M people
- Englishofficial87%33.8M
- Frenchofficial29%11.3M
- Spanish3.2%1.2M
- Chinese2.7%1M
- Punjabi2.6%1M
- Arabic2.3%892.3K
- Hindi2.1%814.7K
- Filipino2%775.9K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%. 26 more languages sit below the top eight, at 14.5% combined.
CLDR records English in 145 territories and 1.7B speakers in total; Canada holds 2% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The English profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (en-CA).
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
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Date
April 21, 2026
Short: 2026-04-21
Time
6:30 p.m.
Week starts Sun
Currency
$1,234.56
1,234.56 in CAD · Canadian Dollar