- ISO 3166
CA- Primary locale
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.
At a glance
Each figure is drawn against the rest of the world, so a number means something before you have any other market to compare it with.
People online
36.6M
0%world median 81%100%
94% of 38.8M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.
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 what people can spend, not what your product will earn.
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%
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 it shifts toward another language.
What people speak
Shares count first and second languages, so they sum past 100% and one bilingual person is counted twice.
Most spoken in Canada
share of 38.8M people
- Englishofficial87%33.8M
- Frenchofficial29%11.3M
- Spanish3%1.2M
- Chinese3%1M
- Punjabi3%1M
- Arabic2%892.3K
- Hindi2%814.7K
- Filipino2%775.9K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible. 26 more languages sit below the top eight, at 14.5% combined.
One country understates a language. CLDR records diaspora too, so a language usually reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
What you would ship
Configuration for day one, computed live with Intl.* against en-CA, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
2
Standard. Use Intl.PluralRules for the few cases that matter.
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
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