- ISO 3166
PS- Primary locale
ar-PS- Currency
- ILS · Israeli New Shekel
- Region
- EMEA · MENA · MENAP
Palestinian Territories
Palestinian Territories has 5.4M people, and 4.7M of them are online. Arabic is the most widely spoken language at 100%, one of 2 languages CLDR lists here. Arabic is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to ar-PS.
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
4.7M
0%world median 81%100%
87% of 5.4M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2023 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.
Income per person
$3,171
Higher than 26% 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
40%
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
2
Arabic 100% · Levantine Arabic 87%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
463
Very lowVery high
Low 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
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 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 Palestinian Territories
share of 5.4M people
- Arabicofficial100%5.4M
- Levantine Arabic87%4.7M
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible.
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 ar-PS, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
6
Translator catalog must define all categories. Engineering must use Intl.PluralRules.
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
٢١ نيسان ٢٠٢٦
Short: ٢١/٤/٢٠٢٦
Time
٦:٣٠ م
Week starts Mon
Currency
١٬٢٣٤٫٥٦ ₪
1,234.56 in ILS · Israeli New Shekel
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 · Plural rules: why each category needs its own translation