- ISO 3166
NE- Main language + region
ha-NE- Currency
- XOF · West African CFA Franc
- Region
- SSA
Niger
Niger has 26.3M people, and 4.1M of them are online. Hausa is the most widely spoken language at 41%, one of 6 languages CLDR lists here. French is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to ha-NE.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
4.1M
0%world median 81%100%
16% of 26.3M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$775
Higher than 4% 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
15%
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
6
Hausa 41% · Zarma 17% · French 13%
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
29%
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 Hausa in 5 territories and 45.2M speakers in total; Niger holds 24% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Hausa profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (ha-NE).
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 Afirilu, 2026
Short: 21/4/26
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
F CFA 1,235
1,234.56 in XOF · West African CFA Franc