- ISO 3166
FO- Main language + region
fo-FO- Currency
- DKK · Danish Krone
- Region
- not grouped
Faroe Islands
Faroe Islands has 52.9K people, and 51.7K of them are online. Faroese is the most widely spoken language at 95%, one of 1 language CLDR lists here. Faroese is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to fo-FO.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
51.7K
0%world median 81%100%
98% of 52.9K people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2017 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$74,175
Higher than 93% 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
1
Faroese 95%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
—
Not in the EF EPI 2025 table. Absent is not the same as low.
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 Faroe Islands
share of 52.9K people
- Faroeseofficial95%50.3K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.
CLDR records Faroese in 2 territories and 73K speakers in total; Faroe Islands holds 69% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Faroese profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (fo-FO).
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. apríl 2026
Short: 21.04.26
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
1.234,56 kr
1,234.56 in DKK · Danish Krone