- ISO 3166
PK- Main language + region
ur-PK- Currency
- PKR · Pakistani Rupee
- Region
- APAC · SA · MENAP
Pakistan
Pakistan has 252.4M people, and 144.5M of them are online. Urdu is the most widely spoken language at 95%, one of 21 languages CLDR lists here. Urdu and English are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to ur-PK.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
144.5M
0%world median 81%100%
57% of 252.4M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$1,596
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
27%
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
21
Urdu 95% · Punjabi 70% · English 50%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 2 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
493
Very lowVery high
Low 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
55%
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 Pakistan
share of 252.4M people
- Urduofficial95%239.7M
- Punjabi70%176.7M
- Englishofficial50%126.2M
- Western Panjabi40%100.9M
- Pashto16%40.4M
- Sindhi15%37.9M
- Saraiki12%30.3M
- Baluchi2.6%6.6M
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%. 13 more languages sit below the top eight, at 6.1% combined.
CLDR records Urdu in 5 territories and 313.1M speakers in total; Pakistan holds 77% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Urdu profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (ur-PK).
Plural categories
2
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Arabic
Bundle a Noto-class webfont that covers this script. OS defaults vary.
Reading direction
Right-to-left
Use logical CSS properties (padding-inline-start, etc.). Wrap interpolated LTR with <bdi> or FSI/PDI.
Date
21 اپریل، 2026
Short: 21/4/26
Time
6:30 PM
Week starts Sun
Currency
Rs 1,235
1,234.56 in PKR · Pakistani Rupee
The engineering behind the flags: Bidirectional text: why the dollar sign wanders in an RTL string · RTL layouts: what flips and what doesn't · Font fallback: why the OS picks the wrong glyphs for this script