- ISO 3166
ML- Main language + region
bm-ML- Currency
- XOF · West African CFA Franc
- Region
- SSA
Mali
Mali has 22M people, and 8.1M of them are online. Bambara is the most widely spoken language at 46%, one of 14 languages CLDR lists here. French is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to bm-ML.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
8.1M
0%world median 81%100%
37% of 22M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$1,193
Higher than 11% 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
55%
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
14
Bambara 46% · French 17% · Maasina Fulfulde 7.7%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
408
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
33%
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 Mali
share of 22M people
- Bambara46%10.1M
- Frenchofficial17%3.7M
- Maasina Fulfulde7.7%1.7M
- Soninke5.9%1.3M
- Kita Maninkakan5%1.1M
- Koyraboro Senni3.4%747.7K
- Tamashek2.1%461.8K
- Bambara2%439.8K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%. 6 more languages sit below the top eight, at 6.5% combined.
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 (bm-ML).
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
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21 awirili 2026
Short: 21/4/2026
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
F CFA 1,235
1,234.56 in XOF · West African CFA Franc