- ISO 3166
GL- Main language + region
kl-GL- Currency
- DKK · Danish Krone
- Region
- not grouped
Greenland
Greenland has 57.8K people, and 40.1K of them are online. Kalaallisut is the most widely spoken language at 84%, one of 2 languages CLDR lists here. Kalaallisut is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to kl-GL.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
40.1K
0%world median 81%100%
69% of 57.8K people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2017 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$58,499
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
—
No Findex survey covers this territory, so payment readiness is unknown.
Languages
2
Kalaallisut 84% · Danish 14%
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
100%
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 Greenland
share of 57.8K people
- Kalaallisutofficial84%48.5K
- Danish14%8.1K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.
CLDR records Kalaallisut in 2 territories and 55.7K speakers in total; Greenland holds 87% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Kalaallisut profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (kl-GL).
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
2026 apriilip 21
Short: 2026-04-21
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
kr. 1.234,56
1,234.56 in DKK · Danish Krone