- ISO 3166
IS- Main language + region
is-IS- Currency
- ISK · Icelandic Króna
- Region
- EMEA · EU/UK · Nordics
Iceland
Iceland has 364K people, and 357.5K of them are online. Icelandic is the most widely spoken language at 100%, one of 2 languages CLDR lists here. Icelandic is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to is-IS.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
357.5K
0%world median 81%100%
98% of 364K people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$98,323
Higher than 96% 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
100%
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
2
Icelandic 100% · Danish 0.7%
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
99%
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%.
CLDR also records diaspora populations, so a language reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (is-IS).
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
21. apríl 2026
Short: 21.4.2026
Time
18:30
Week starts Sun
Currency
1.235 kr.
1,234.56 in ISK · Icelandic Króna