- ISO 3166
NE- Primary locale
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.
At a glance
Each figure is drawn against the rest of the world, so a number means something before you have any other market to compare it with.
People online
4.1M
0%world median 81%100%
16% of 26.3M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.
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 what people can spend, not what your product will earn.
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 it shifts toward another language.
What people speak
Shares count first and second languages, so they sum past 100% and one bilingual person is counted twice.
Most spoken in Niger
share of 26.3M people
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible.
One country understates a language. CLDR records diaspora too, so a language usually reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
What you would ship
Configuration for day one, computed live with Intl.* against ha-NE, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
2
Standard. Use Intl.PluralRules for the few cases that matter.
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 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