- ISO 3166
IN- Main language + region
hi-IN- Currency
- INR · Indian Rupee
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India
India has 1.4B people, and 986.4M of them are online. Hindi is the most widely spoken language at 41%, one of 50 languages CLDR lists here. Hindi and English are official nationally, and Bangla and Telugu are official in part of the territory. A product shipping here defaults to hi-IN.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
986.4M
0%world median 81%100%
70% of 1.4B people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2025 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$2,702
Higher than 22% 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
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
50
Hindi 41% · English 19% · Bangla 8.1%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 2 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
484
Very lowVery high
Low 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
63%
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 India
share of 1.4B people
- Hindiofficial41%577.7M
- Englishofficial19%267.7M
- Banglaregional8.1%114.1M
- Teluguregional7.2%101.5M
- Marathiregional7%98.6M
- Tamilregional5.9%83.1M
- Urduregional5%70.5M
- Gujaratiregional4.5%63.4M
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%. 42 more languages sit below the top eight, at 32.7% combined.
CLDR records Hindi in 5 territories and 581.7M speakers in total; India holds 100% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Hindi profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (hi-IN).
Plural categories
2
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Devanagari
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
21 अप्रैल 2026
Short: 21/4/26
Time
6:30 pm
Week starts Sun
Currency
₹1,234.56
1,234.56 in INR · Indian Rupee
The engineering behind the flags: Font fallback: why the OS picks the wrong glyphs for this script