- ISO 3166
KH- Main language + region
km-KH- Currency
- KHR · Cambodian Riel
- Region
- APAC · SEA
Cambodia
Cambodia has 17.1M people, and 11.7M of them are online. Khmer is the most widely spoken language at 89%, one of 3 languages CLDR lists here. Khmer is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to km-KH.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
11.7M
0%world median 81%100%
68% of 17.1M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$2,872
Higher than 23% 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
39%
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
3
Khmer 89% · Western Cham 1.6% · Kuy 0.2%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
390
Very lowVery high
Very 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
74%
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 Cambodia
share of 17.1M people
- Khmerofficial89%15.2M
- Western Cham1.6%273K
- Kuy0.2%18.8K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 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 (km-KH).
Plural categories
1
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text. One form fits every count here.
Script family
Other-Brahmic
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 មេសា 2026
Short: 21/4/26
Time
6:30 PM
Week starts Sun
Currency
1,234.56៛
1,234.56 in KHR · Cambodian Riel
The engineering behind the flags: Font fallback: why the OS picks the wrong glyphs for this script