- ISO 3166
ER- Main language + region
ti-ER- Currency
- ERN · Eritrean Nakfa
- Region
- SSA
Eritrea
Eritrea has 6.3M people, and 910.3K of them are online. Tigrinya is the most widely spoken language at 60%, one of 7 languages CLDR lists here. Tigrinya, English, and Arabic are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to ti-ER.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
910.3K
0%world median 81%100%
14% of 6.3M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2020 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$689
Higher than 4% 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
—
No Findex survey covers this territory, so payment readiness is unknown.
Languages
7
Tigrinya 60% · English 59% · Tigre 18%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 3 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
—
Not in the EF EPI 2025 table. Absent is not the same as low.
Adult literacy
69%
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 Tigrinya in 3 territories and 10.9M speakers in total; Eritrea holds 35% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Tigrinya profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (ti-ER).
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
ሚያዝያ 21, 2026
Short: 4/21/26
Time
6:30 ድ.ቀ.
Week starts Mon
Currency
Nfk 1,234.56
1,234.56 in ERN · Eritrean Nakfa