- ISO 3166
SK- Main language + region
sk-SK- Currency
- EUR · Euro
- Region
- EMEA · EU/UK
Slovakia
Slovakia has 5.6M people, and 5M of them are online. Slovak is the most widely spoken language at 90%, one of 7 languages CLDR lists here. Slovak is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to sk-SK.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
5M
0%world median 81%100%
90% of 5.6M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$28,544
Higher than 73% 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
92%
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
7
Slovak 90% · Czech 47% · English 26%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
606
Very lowVery high
Very high 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
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 another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
CLDR records Slovak in 4 territories and 6.8M speakers in total; Slovakia holds 74% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Slovak profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (sk-SK).
Plural categories
4
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
21. apríla 2026
Short: 21. 4. 2026
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
1 234,56 €
1,234.56 in EUR · Euro
The engineering behind the flags: Plural rules: why each category needs its own translation