- ISO 3166
PH- Main language + region
fil-PH- Currency
- PHP · Philippine Peso
- Region
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Philippines
Philippines has 118.3M people, and 79.6M of them are online. English is the most widely spoken language at 64%, one of 17 languages CLDR lists here. English and Filipino are official nationally, and Cebuano and Iloko are official in part of the territory. A product shipping here defaults to fil-PH.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
79.6M
0%world median 81%100%
67% of 118.3M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$4,171
Higher than 31% 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
50%
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
17
English 64% · Filipino 60% · Spanish 31%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 2 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
569
Very lowVery high
High 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
95%
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 Philippines
share of 118.3M people
- Englishofficial64%75.7M
- Filipinoofficial60%71M
- Spanish31%36.7M
- Cebuanoregional24%28.4M
- Ilokoregional9.6%11.4M
- Hiligaynonregional8.4%9.9M
- Bikol3%3.5M
- Warayregional2.9%3.4M
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%. 9 more languages sit below the top eight, at 10.4% combined.
CLDR records English in 145 territories and 1.7B speakers in total; Philippines holds 4% 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 (fil-PH).
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
Abril 21, 2026
Short: 4/21/26
Time
6:30 PM
Week starts Sun
Currency
₱1,234.56
1,234.56 in PHP · Philippine Peso