- ISO 3166
LR- Primary locale
en-LR- Currency
- LRD · Liberian Dollar
- Region
- SSA
Liberia
Liberia has 5.4M people, and 1.8M of them are online. English is the most widely spoken language at 83%, one of 12 languages CLDR lists here. English is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to en-LR.
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
1.8M
0%world median 81%100%
32% of 5.4M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.
Income per person
$915
Higher than 6% 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
52%
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
12
English 83% · Liberian English 74% · Kpelle 20%
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
61%
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 Liberia
share of 5.4M people
- Englishofficial83%4.5M
- Liberian English74%4M
- Kpelle20%1.1M
- Bassa14%761.2K
- Kru languages10%543.7K
- Grebo10%538.3K
- Dan8%429.5K
- Mano7%391.5K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible. 4 more languages sit below the top eight, at 12.7% 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 en-LR, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
2
Standard. Use Intl.PluralRules for the few cases that matter.
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 April 2026
Short: 21/04/2026
Time
6:30 pm
Week starts Mon
Currency
$1,234.56
1,234.56 in LRD · Liberian Dollar