- ISO 3166
SD- Primary locale
apd-SD- Currency
- SDG · Sudanese Pound
- Region
- EMEA · MENA · MENAP
Sudan
Sudan has 50.5M people, and 9.4M of them are online. Sudanese Arabic is the most widely spoken language at 61%, one of 9 languages CLDR lists here. Arabic and English are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to apd-SD.
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
9.4M
0%world median 81%100%
19% of 50.5M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2017 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.
Income per person
$1,165
Higher than 10% 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
15%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2014. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
9
Sudanese Arabic 61% · Arabic 61% · English 61%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 2 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
421
Very lowVery high
Very 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
72%
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 Sudan
share of 50.5M people
- Sudanese Arabic61%30.8M
- Arabicofficial61%30.8M
- Englishofficial61%30.8M
- Beja5%2.7M
- Fur3%1.4M
- Hausa2%908.4K
- Masalit1.0%499.6K
- Nobiin0.8%418.9K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible. 1 more language sits below the top eight, at 0.5% 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 apd-SD, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
2
Standard. Use Intl.PluralRules for the few cases that matter.
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 Sat
Currency
SDG 1,234.56
1,234.56 in SDG · Sudanese Pound