- ISO 3166
SD- Main language + region
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.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
9.4M
0%world median 81%100%
19% of 50.5M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2017 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
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 spending power, not revenue.
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. 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 another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in Sudan
share of 50.5M people
- Sudanese Arabic61%30.8M
- Arabicofficial61%30.8M
- Englishofficial61%30.8M
- Beja5.4%2.7M
- Fur2.7%1.4M
- Hausa1.8%908.4K
- Masalit1%499.6K
- Nobiin0.9%418.9K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%. 1 more language sits below the top eight, at 0.6% combined.
CLDR also records diaspora populations, so a language reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (apd-SD).
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 Sat
Currency
SDG 1,234.56
1,234.56 in SDG · Sudanese Pound