- ISO 3166
LR- Main language + region
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.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
1.8M
0%world median 81%100%
32% of 5.4M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
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 spending power, not revenue.
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 another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
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
- Grebo9.9%538.3K
- Dan7.9%429.5K
- Mano7.2%391.5K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%. 4 more languages sit below the top eight, at 12.7% combined.
CLDR records English in 145 territories and 1.7B speakers in total; Liberia holds 0% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The English profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (en-LR).
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
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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