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ISO 3166
DO
Main language + region
es-DO
Currency
DOP · Dominican Peso
Region
LATAM

Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic has 10.8M people, and 9.8M of them are online. Spanish is the most widely spoken language at 78%, one of 1 language CLDR lists here. Spanish is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to es-DO.

SpanishLATAM

Market summary

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

People online

9.8M

0%world median 81%100%

91% 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

$11,059

Higher than 54% 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

65%

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

1

Spanish 78%

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

English proficiency

503

Very lowVery high

Moderate 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

90%

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 Dominican Republic

share of 10.8M people

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

CLDR records Spanish in 36 territories and 507.3M speakers in total; Dominican Republic holds 2% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Spanish profile maps the whole footprint.

Day-one requirements

What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (es-DO).

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 de abril de 2026

Short: 21/4/26

Time

6:30 p. m.

Week starts Sun

Currency

RD$1,234.56

1,234.56 in DOP · Dominican Peso