- ISO 3166
MO- Main language + region
zh-MO- Currency
- MOP · Macanese Pataca
- Region
- APAC · Greater China · CJK
Macao SAR China
Macao SAR China has 644.4K people, and 578.9K of them are online. Traditional Chinese is the most widely spoken language at 98%, one of 7 languages CLDR lists here. Traditional Chinese, Cantonese, and Portuguese are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to zh-MO.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
578.9K
0%world median 81%100%
90% of 644.4K people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$75,902
Higher than 93% 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
—
No Findex survey covers this territory, so payment readiness is unknown.
Languages
7
Traditional Chinese 98% · Cantonese 86% · English 23%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 3 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
—
Not in the EF EPI 2025 table. Absent is not the same as low.
Adult literacy
96%
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 Macao SAR China
share of 644.4K people
- Traditional Chineseofficial98%631.5K
- Cantoneseofficial86%554.2K
- English23%148.2K
- Chinese5%32.2K
- Min Nan Chinese3.7%23.8K
- Filipino3.1%20K
- Portugueseofficial2.3%14.8K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.
CLDR records Traditional Chinese in 20 territories and 1.3B speakers in total; Macao SAR China holds 0% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Traditional Chinese profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (zh-MO).
Plural categories
1
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text. One form fits every count here.
Script family
CJK
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
2026年4月21日
Short: 21/4/2026
Time
下午6:30
Week starts Sun
Currency
MOP$1,234.56
1,234.56 in MOP · Macanese Pataca
The engineering behind the flags: Font fallback: why the OS picks the wrong glyphs for this script