- ISO 3166
PF- Main language + region
fr-PF- Currency
- XPF · CFP Franc
- Region
- not grouped
French Polynesia
French Polynesia has 303.5K people, and 220.7K of them are online. French is the most widely spoken language at 98%, one of 3 languages CLDR lists here. French and Tahitian are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to fr-PF.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
220.7K
0%world median 81%100%
73% of 303.5K people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2017 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$22,440
Higher than 67% 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
—
No Findex survey covers this territory, so payment readiness is unknown.
Languages
3
French 98% · Tahitian 31% · Traditional Chinese 7.8%
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
98%
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 French Polynesia
share of 303.5K people
- Frenchofficial98%297.5K
- Tahitianofficial31%94.1K
- Traditional Chinese7.8%23.7K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.
CLDR records French in 64 territories and 333M speakers in total; French Polynesia holds 0% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The French profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (fr-PF).
Plural categories
3
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 avril 2026
Short: 21/04/2026
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
1 235 FCFP
1,234.56 in XPF · CFP Franc