- ISO 3166
PY- Main language + region
gn-PY- Currency
- PYG · Paraguayan Guarani
- Region
- LATAM · South America
Paraguay
Paraguay has 7.5M people, and 6.1M of them are online. Guarani is the most widely spoken language at 80%, one of 3 languages CLDR lists here. Guarani and Spanish are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to gn-PY.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
6.1M
0%world median 81%100%
82% of 7.5M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$7,027
Higher than 43% 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
61%
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
3
Guarani 80% · Spanish 3.2% · German 2.9%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 2 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
531
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
94%
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%.
CLDR records Guarani in 2 territories and 6.1M speakers in total; Paraguay holds 99% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Guarani profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (gn-PY).
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
April 21, 2026
Short: 4/21/26
Time
6:30 PM
Week starts Sun
Currency
PYG 1,235
1,234.56 in PYG · Paraguayan Guarani