- ISO 3166
IT- Main language + region
it-IT- Currency
- EUR · Euro
- Region
- EMEA · EU/UK
Italy
Italy has 61M people, and 54.4M of them are online. Italian is the most widely spoken language at 95%, one of 13 languages CLDR lists here. Italian is official nationally, and French and Venetian are official in part of the territory. A product shipping here defaults to it-IT.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
54.4M
0%world median 81%100%
89% of 61M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$43,309
Higher than 83% 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
86%
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
13
Italian 95% · English 34% · French 20%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
513
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
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%.
Most spoken in Italy
share of 61M people
- Italianofficial95%57.9M
- English34%20.7M
- Frenchregional20%12.2M
- Lombard5.7%3.5M
- Sardinian1.7%1M
- German1.6%975.4K
- Venetianregional1.3%792.5K
- Piedmontese1.1%670.6K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%. 5 more languages sit below the top eight, at 3% combined.
CLDR records Italian in 15 territories and 70.5M speakers in total; Italy holds 82% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Italian profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (it-IT).
Plural categories
3
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 aprile 2026
Short: 21/04/26
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
1234,56 €
1,234.56 in EUR · Euro