- ISO 3166
DE- Main language + region
de-DE- Currency
- EUR · Euro
- Region
- EMEA · EU/UK · DACH
Germany
Germany has 84.1M people, and 78.7M of them are online. German is the most widely spoken language at 91%, one of 19 languages CLDR lists here. German is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to de-DE.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
78.7M
0%world median 81%100%
93% of 84.1M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$60,496
Higher than 90% 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
19
German 91% · English 64% · French 18%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
615
Very lowVery high
Very 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 Germany
share of 84.1M people
- Germanofficial91%76.5M
- English64%53.8M
- French18%15.1M
- Bavarian17%14.3M
- Low German12%10.1M
- Dutch9%7.6M
- Italian7%5.9M
- Spanish6%5M
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%. 11 more languages sit below the top eight, at 22.3% combined.
CLDR records German in 27 territories and 141.9M speakers in total; Germany holds 54% 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-DE).
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
1.234,56 €
1,234.56 in EUR · Euro