- ISO 3166
ER- Primary locale
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.
At a glance
Each figure is drawn against the rest of the world, so a number means something before you have any other market to compare it with.
People online
910.3K
0%world median 81%100%
14% of 6.3M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2020 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.
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 what people can spend, not what your product will earn.
Can pay online
—
No Findex survey covers this territory, so payment readiness is unknown here.
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 it shifts toward another language.
What people speak
Shares count first and second languages, so they sum past 100% and one bilingual person is counted twice.
Most spoken in Eritrea
share of 6.3M people
- Tigrinyaofficial60%3.8M
- Englishofficial59%3.7M
- Tigre18%1.1M
- Arabicofficial5%310.9K
- Afar4%228.4K
- Saho4%228.4K
- Blin1%82.5K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible.
One country understates a language. CLDR records diaspora too, so a language usually reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
What you would ship
Configuration for day one, computed live with Intl.* against ti-ER, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
2
Standard. Use Intl.PluralRules for the few cases that matter.
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