- ISO 3166
GR- Primary locale
el-GR- Currency
- EUR · Euro
- Region
- EMEA · EU/UK
Greece
Greece has 10.5M people, and 9M of them are online. Greek is the most widely spoken language at 99%, one of 8 languages CLDR lists here. Greek is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to el-GR.
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
9M
0%world median 81%100%
86% of 10.5M 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
$26,948
Higher than 71% 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
89%
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
8
Greek 99% · English 51% · French 7%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
592
Very lowVery high
High proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers, so treat it as colour for a discussion. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
97%
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 Greece
share of 10.5M people
- Greekofficial99%10.4M
- English51%5.3M
- French7%763.7K
- German5%523.1K
- Pontic4%387.1K
- Macedonian2%167.4K
- Turkish1%125.5K
- Bulgarian0.3%28.2K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible.
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 el-GR, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
2
Standard. Use Intl.PluralRules for the few cases that matter.
Script family
Greek
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 Απριλίου 2026
Short: 21/4/26
Time
6:30 μ.μ.
Week starts Mon
Currency
1.234,56 €
1,234.56 in EUR · Euro