- ISO 3166
GB- Main language + region
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.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
65.4M
0%world median 81%100%
95% of 68.5M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
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 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
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 another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
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
- Punjabi3.6%2.5M
- Urdu3.5%2.4M
- Tamil3.2%2.2M
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%. 14 more languages sit below the top eight, at 9.8% combined.
CLDR records English in 145 territories and 1.7B speakers in total; United Kingdom holds 4% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The English profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (en-GB).
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 April 2026
Short: 21/04/2026
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
£1,234.56
1,234.56 in GBP · British Pound