- ISO 3166
RU- Primary locale
ru-RU- Currency
- RUB · Russian Ruble
- Region
- EMEA · CIS
Russia
Russia has 140.8M people, and 132.9M of them are online. Russian is the most widely spoken language at 94%, one of 22 languages CLDR lists here. Russian is official nationally, and Tatar and Bashkir are official in part of the territory. A product shipping here defaults to ru-RU.
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
132.9M
0%world median 81%100%
94% of 140.8M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.
Income per person
$17,547
Higher than 61% 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
79%
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
22
Russian 94% · Tatar 1% · Bashkir 1%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
521
Very lowVery high
Moderate 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
100%
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 Russia
share of 140.8M people
- Russianofficial94%132.4M
- Tatarregional1%2M
- Bashkirregional1%1.8M
- Chuvash1%1.8M
- Armenian0.8%1.2M
- Chechenregional0.7%929.4K
- Avaricregional0.4%549.2K
- Udmurtregional0.4%535.1K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible. 14 more languages sit below the top eight, at 3.3% combined.
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 ru-RU, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
4
Standard. Use Intl.PluralRules for the few cases that matter.
Script family
Cyrillic
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 апреля 2026 г.
Short: 21.04.2026
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
1 234,56 ₽
1,234.56 in RUB · Russian Ruble
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