- ISO 3166
FR- Main language + region
fr-FR- Currency
- EUR · Euro
- Region
- EMEA · EU/UK
France
France has 68.4M people, and 60.6M of them are online. French is the most widely spoken language at 97%, one of 15 languages CLDR lists here. French is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to fr-FR.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
60.6M
0%world median 81%100%
89% of 68.4M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$48,986
Higher than 85% 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
99%
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
15
French 97% · English 39% · Spanish 13%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
539
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
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 France
share of 68.4M people
- Frenchofficial97%66.3M
- English39%26.7M
- Spanish13%8.9M
- German5%3.4M
- Occitan3%2.1M
- Italian1.7%1.2M
- Portuguese1.3%888.9K
- Picard1.1%752.1K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%. 7 more languages sit below the top eight, at 2.6% combined.
CLDR records French in 64 territories and 333M speakers in total; France holds 20% 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-FR).
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 avril 2026
Short: 21/04/2026
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
1 234,56 €
1,234.56 in EUR · Euro