- ISO 3166
HK- Main language + region
zh-HK- Currency
- HKD · Hong Kong Dollar
- Region
- APAC · Greater China · CJK
Hong Kong SAR China
Hong Kong SAR China has 7.3M people, and 7M of them are online. Traditional Chinese is the most widely spoken language at 95%, one of 4 languages CLDR lists here. Traditional Chinese and English are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to zh-HK.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
7M
0%world median 81%100%
96% of 7.3M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$56,983
Higher than 87% 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
97%
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
4
Traditional Chinese 95% · Cantonese 90% · English 51%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 2 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
538
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
94%
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 Hong Kong SAR China
share of 7.3M people
- Traditional Chineseofficial95%6.9M
- Cantonese90%6.6M
- Englishofficial51%3.7M
- Chinese5%364.9K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.
CLDR records Traditional Chinese in 20 territories and 1.3B speakers in total; Hong Kong SAR China holds 1% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Traditional Chinese profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (zh-HK).
Plural categories
1
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text. One form fits every count here.
Script family
CJK
Bundle a Noto-class webfont that covers this script. OS defaults vary.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
2026年4月21日
Short: 21/4/2026
Time
下午6:30
Week starts Sun
Currency
HK$1,234.56
1,234.56 in HKD · Hong Kong Dollar
The engineering behind the flags: Font fallback: why the OS picks the wrong glyphs for this script