- ISO 3166
NP- Primary locale
ne-NP- Currency
- NPR · Nepalese Rupee
- Region
- APAC · SA
Nepal
Nepal has 31.1M people, and 14.4M of them are online. Nepali is the most widely spoken language at 44%, one of 26 languages CLDR lists here. Nepali is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to ne-NP.
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
14.4M
0%world median 81%100%
46% of 31.1M 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
$1,536
Higher than 15% 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
60%
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
26
Nepali 44% · Maithili 11% · Bhojpuri 7%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
514
Very lowVery high
Moderate proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers, so treat it as colour for a discussion. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
57%
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 Nepal
share of 31.1M people
- Nepaliofficial44%13.7M
- Maithili11%3.4M
- Bhojpuri7%2.1M
- Newari3%1M
- Jumli3%995.9K
- English3%933.7K
- Dotyali3%778.1K
- Awadhi2%684.7K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible. 18 more languages sit below the top eight, at 13.4% combined.
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 ne-NP, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
2
Standard. Use Intl.PluralRules for the few cases that matter.
Script family
Devanagari
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
२०२६ अप्रिल २१
Short: २६/४/२१
Time
१८:३०
Week starts Sun
Currency
नेरू १,२३४.५६
1,234.56 in NPR · Nepalese Rupee
The engineering behind the flags: Font fallback: why the OS picks the wrong glyphs for this script