- ISO 3166
DJ- Main language + region
fr-DJ- Currency
- DJF · Djiboutian Franc
- Region
- SSA
Djibouti
Djibouti has 995K people, and 649.7K of them are online. French is the most widely spoken language at 50%, one of 4 languages CLDR lists here. French and Arabic are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to fr-DJ.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
649.7K
0%world median 81%100%
65% of 995K people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$3,906
Higher than 28% 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
12%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2011. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
4
French 50% · Afar 42% · Somali 41%
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
68%
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%.
CLDR records French in 64 territories and 333M speakers in total; Djibouti holds 0% 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-DJ).
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
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Date
21 avril 2026
Short: 21/04/2026
Time
6:30 PM
Week starts Sat
Currency
1 235 Fdj
1,234.56 in DJF · Djiboutian Franc