- ISO 3166
NP- Main language + region
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.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
14.4M
0%world median 81%100%
46% of 31.1M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
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 spending power, not revenue.
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 6.8%
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. 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 another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in Nepal
share of 31.1M people
- Nepaliofficial44%13.7M
- Maithili11%3.4M
- Bhojpuri6.8%2.1M
- Newari3.3%1M
- Jumli3.2%995.9K
- English3%933.7K
- Dotyali2.5%778.1K
- Awadhi2.2%684.7K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%. 18 more languages sit below the top eight, at 13.4% combined.
CLDR records Nepali in 3 territories and 21.7M speakers in total; Nepal holds 63% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Nepali profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (ne-NP).
Plural categories
2
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
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