- ISO 3166
CH- Main language + region
de-CH- Currency
- CHF · Swiss Franc
- Region
- EMEA · EU/UK · DACH
Switzerland
Switzerland has 8.9M people, and 8.6M of them are online. German is the most widely spoken language at 76%, one of 10 languages CLDR lists here. German, Swiss German, and French are official nationally, and Romansh is official in part of the territory. A product shipping here defaults to de-CH.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
8.6M
0%world median 81%100%
97% of 8.9M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2025 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$114,769
Higher than 97% 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
10
German 76% · Swiss German 66% · English 45%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 4 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
564
Very lowVery high
High 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
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 Switzerland
share of 8.9M people
- Germanofficial76%6.7M
- Swiss Germanofficial66%5.8M
- English45%4M
- Frenchofficial39%3.5M
- Italianofficial15%1.3M
- Lombard4.1%363.3K
- Portuguese3.4%301.3K
- Romanshregional0.5%44.3K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%. 2 more languages sit below the top eight, at 0.4% combined.
CLDR records German in 27 territories and 141.9M speakers in total; Switzerland holds 5% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The German profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (de-CH).
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
21. April 2026
Short: 21.04.26
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
CHF 1'234.56
1,234.56 in CHF · Swiss Franc