- ISO 3166
MD- Main language + region
ro-MD- Currency
- MDL · Moldovan Leu
- Region
- EMEA · CIS
Moldova
Moldova has 3.6M people, and 2.8M of them are online. Romanian is the most widely spoken language at 63%, one of 5 languages CLDR lists here. Romanian is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to ro-MD.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
2.8M
0%world median 81%100%
77% of 3.6M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$8,622
Higher than 49% 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
56%
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
Romanian 63% · Ukrainian 14% · Bulgarian 9.4%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
531
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%.
CLDR records Romanian in 8 territories and 20M speakers in total; Moldova holds 11% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Romanian profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (ro-MD).
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 aprilie 2026
Short: 21.04.2026
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
1.234,56 L
1,234.56 in MDL · Moldovan Leu