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ISO 3166
ST
Main language + region
pt-ST
Currency
STN · São Tomé & Príncipe Dobra
Region
not grouped

São Tomé & Príncipe

São Tomé & Príncipe has 223.6K people, and 132.2K of them are online. Portuguese is the most widely spoken language at 85%, one of 2 languages CLDR lists here. Portuguese is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to pt-ST.

Portuguese

Market summary

Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.

People online

132.2K

0%world median 81%100%

59% of 223.6K people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.

Income per person

$4,084

Higher than 30% 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

—

No Findex survey covers this territory, so payment readiness is unknown.

Languages

2

Portuguese 85% · French 20%

Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.

English proficiency

—

Not in the EF EPI 2025 table. Absent is not the same as low.

Adult literacy

70%

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 São Tomé & Príncipe

share of 223.6K people

Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.

CLDR records Portuguese in 15 territories and 249.5M speakers in total; São Tomé & Príncipe holds 0% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Portuguese profile maps the whole footprint.

Day-one requirements

What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (pt-ST).

Plural categories

3

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 de abril de 2026

Short: 21/04/26

Time

18:30

Week starts Mon

Currency

1234,56 Db

1,234.56 in STN · São Tomé & Príncipe Dobra