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ISO 3166
CG
Main language + region
fr-CG
Currency
XAF · Central African CFA Franc
Region
SSA

Congo - Brazzaville

Congo - Brazzaville has 6.1M people, and 2.9M of them are online. French is the most widely spoken language at 61%, one of 2 languages CLDR lists here. French is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to fr-CG.

FrenchSSA

Market summary

Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.

People online

2.9M

0%world median 81%100%

47% of 6.1M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.

Income per person

$2,515

Higher than 20% 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

56%

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

2

French 61% · Lingala 2.4%

Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.

English proficiency

—

Not in the EF EPI 2025 table. Absent is not the same as low.

Adult literacy

84%

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 Congo - Brazzaville

share of 6.1M people

Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.

CLDR records French in 64 territories and 333M speakers in total; Congo - Brazzaville holds 1% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The French profile maps the whole footprint.

Day-one requirements

What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (fr-CG).

Plural categories

3

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

21 avril 2026

Short: 21/04/2026

Time

18:30

Week starts Mon

Currency

1 235 FCFA

1,234.56 in XAF · Central African CFA Franc