- ISO 3166
TL- Primary locale
pt-TL- Currency
- USD · US Dollar
- Region
- not grouped
Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste has 1.5M people, and 528.1K of them are online. Portuguese is the most widely spoken language at 59%, one of 2 languages CLDR lists here. Portuguese and Tetum are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to pt-TL.
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
528.1K
0%world median 81%100%
35% of 1.5M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2021 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.
Income per person
$1,341
Higher than 13% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to what people can spend, not what your product will earn.
Can pay online
—
No Findex survey covers this territory, so payment readiness is unknown here.
Languages
2
Portuguese 59% · Tetum 59%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 2 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
—
Not in the EF EPI 2025 table. Absent is not the same as low.
Adult literacy
58%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before it shifts toward another language.
What people speak
Shares count first and second languages, so they sum past 100% and one bilingual person is counted twice.
Most spoken in Timor-Leste
share of 1.5M people
- Portugueseofficial59%889.1K
- Tetumofficial59%889.1K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible.
One country understates a language. CLDR records diaspora too, so a language usually reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
What you would ship
Configuration for day one, computed live with Intl.* against pt-TL, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
3
Standard. Use Intl.PluralRules for the few cases that matter.
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21 de abril de 2026
Short: 21/04/26
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
1234,56 US$
1,234.56 in USD · US Dollar