- ISO 3166
LA- Main language + region
lo-LA- Currency
- LAK · Laotian Kip
- Region
- APAC · SEA
Laos
Laos has 8M people, and 5.2M of them are online. Lao is the most widely spoken language at 69%, one of 5 languages CLDR lists here. Lao is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to lo-LA.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
5.2M
0%world median 81%100%
66% of 8M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$2,325
Higher than 19% 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
38%
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
5
Lao 69% · Khmu 5.8% · Hmong Njua 3%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
461
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
73%
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 Laos
share of 8M people
- Laoofficial69%5.5M
- Khmu5.8%461.3K
- Hmong Njua3%238.6K
- Hmong Daw2.3%182.9K
- Kuy1%76.4K
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 (lo-LA).
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 ເມສາ 2026
Short: 21/4/2026
Time
18:30
Week starts Sun
Currency
₭1.235
1,234.56 in LAK · Laotian Kip
The engineering behind the flags: Font fallback: why the OS picks the wrong glyphs for this script