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ISO 3166
CZ
Main language + region
cs-CZ
Currency
CZK · Czech Koruna
Region
EMEA · EU/UK

Czechia

Czechia has 10.8M people, and 9.5M of them are online. Czech is the most widely spoken language at 98%, one of 5 languages CLDR lists here. Czech is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to cs-CZ.

Market summary

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

People online

9.5M

0%world median 81%100%

88% of 10.8M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.

Income per person

$35,917

Higher than 77% 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

92%

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

5

Czech 98% · English 27% · Slovak 16%

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

English proficiency

582

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 Czechia

share of 10.8M people

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

CLDR records Czech in 2 territories and 13.2M speakers in total; Czechia holds 80% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Czech profile maps the whole footprint.

Day-one requirements

What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (cs-CZ).

Plural categories

4

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. dubna 2026

Short: 21.04.26

Time

18:30

Week starts Mon

Currency

1 234,56 Kč

1,234.56 in CZK · Czech Koruna

The engineering behind the flags: Plural rules: why each category needs its own translation