- ISO 3166
TL- Main language + region
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.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
528.1K
0%world median 81%100%
35% of 1.5M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2021 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$1,341
Higher than 13% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
—
No Findex survey covers this territory, so payment readiness is unknown.
Languages
2
Portuguese 59% · Tetum 59%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 2 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
—
Not in the EF EPI 2025 table. Absent is not the same as low.
Adult literacy
58%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in Timor-Leste
share of 1.5M people
- Portugueseofficial59%889.1K
- Tetumofficial59%889.1K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.
CLDR records Portuguese in 15 territories and 249.5M speakers in total; Timor-Leste holds 0% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Portuguese profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (pt-TL).
Plural categories
3
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
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Date
21 de abril de 2026
Short: 21/04/26
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
1234,56 US$
1,234.56 in USD · US Dollar