- ISO 3166
NG- Main language + region
en-NG- Currency
- NGN · Nigerian Naira
- Region
- EMEA · SSA
Nigeria
Nigeria has 236.7M people, and 97.6M of them are online. English is the most widely spoken language at 53%, one of 12 languages CLDR lists here. English and Yoruba are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to en-NG.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
97.6M
0%world median 81%100%
41% of 236.7M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$1,224
Higher than 12% 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
63%
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
12
English 53% · Nigerian Pidgin 21% · Hausa 13%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 2 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
—
Not in the EF EPI 2025 table. Absent is not the same as low.
Adult literacy
61%
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 Nigeria
share of 236.7M people
- Englishofficial53%125.5M
- Nigerian Pidgin21%49.7M
- Hausa13%30.8M
- Igbo13%30.8M
- Yorubaofficial13%30.8M
- Nigerian Fulfulde6.7%15.9M
- Tiv1.6%3.8M
- Efik1.4%3.3M
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%. 4 more languages sit below the top eight, at 3.4% combined.
CLDR records English in 145 territories and 1.7B speakers in total; Nigeria holds 7% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The English profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (en-NG).
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 April 2026
Short: 21/04/2026
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
₦1,234.56
1,234.56 in NGN · Nigerian Naira