- ISO 3166
GB- Primary locale
en-GB- Currency
- GBP · British Pound
- Region
- EMEA · EU/UK
United Kingdom
United Kingdom has 68.5M people, and 65.4M of them are online. English is the most widely spoken language at 98%, one of 22 languages CLDR lists here. English is official nationally, and Welsh and Irish are official in part of the territory. A product shipping here defaults to en-GB.
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
65.4M
0%world median 81%100%
95% of 68.5M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.
Income per person
$57,602
Higher than 88% 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
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
22
English 98% · French 17% · German 9%
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 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 United Kingdom
share of 68.5M people
- Englishofficial98%67.1M
- French17%11.6M
- German9%6.2M
- Spanish8%5.5M
- Polish4%2.7M
- Punjabi4%2.5M
- Urdu4%2.4M
- Tamil3%2.2M
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible. 14 more languages sit below the top eight, at 9.8% combined.
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 en-GB, 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
21 April 2026
Short: 21/04/2026
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
£1,234.56
1,234.56 in GBP · British Pound