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ISO 3166
SZ
Main language + region
en-SZ
Currency
SZL · Swazi Lilangeni
Region
not grouped

Eswatini

Eswatini has 1.1M people, and 721.6K of them are online. English is the most widely spoken language at 80%, one of 4 languages CLDR lists here. English and Swati are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to en-SZ.

EnglishSwati

Market summary

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

People online

721.6K

0%world median 81%100%

63% of 1.1M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.

Income per person

$4,108

Higher than 31% 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

65%

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

4

English 80% · Swati 58% · Zulu 6.8%

Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 2 of them are official nationally.

English proficiency

—

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

Adult literacy

88%

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 Eswatini

share of 1.1M people

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

CLDR records English in 145 territories and 1.7B speakers in total; Eswatini holds 0% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The English profile maps the whole footprint.

Day-one requirements

What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (en-SZ).

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

21 April 2026

Short: 21/04/2026

Time

6:30 pm

Week starts Mon

Currency

E 1,234.56

1,234.56 in SZL · Swazi Lilangeni