- ISO 3166
MM- Main language + region
my-MM- Currency
- MMK · Myanmar Kyat
- Region
- APAC · SEA
Myanmar (Burma)
Myanmar (Burma) has 57.5M people, and 26.1M of them are online. Burmese is the most widely spoken language at 64%, one of 5 languages CLDR lists here. Burmese is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to my-MM.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
26.1M
0%world median 81%100%
45% of 57.5M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2020 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$1,489
Higher than 14% 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
48%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2021. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
5
Burmese 64% · Shan 6.4% · Kachin 1.7%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
444
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
93%
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 Burmese in 2 territories and 37.2M speakers in total; Myanmar (Burma) holds 99% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Burmese profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (my-MM).
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
၂၀၂၆ ဧပြီ ၂၁
Short: ၂၁/၄/၂၆
Time
၁၈:၃၀
Week starts Sun
Currency
၁,၂၃၅ K
1,234.56 in MMK · Myanmar Kyat
The engineering behind the flags: Font fallback: why the OS picks the wrong glyphs for this script