- ISO 3166
IN- Primary locale
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.
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
986.4M
0%world median 81%100%
70% of 1.4B people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2025 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.
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 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
50
Hindi 41% · English 19% · Bangla 8%
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, so treat it as colour for a discussion. 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 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 India
share of 1.4B people
- Hindiofficial41%577.7M
- Englishofficial19%267.7M
- Banglaregional8%114.1M
- Teluguregional7%101.5M
- Marathiregional7%98.6M
- Tamilregional6%83.1M
- Urduregional5%70.5M
- Gujaratiregional5%63.4M
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible. 42 more languages sit below the top eight, at 32.7% combined.
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 hi-IN, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
2
Standard. Use Intl.PluralRules for the few cases that matter.
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