- ISO 3166
TR- Main language + region
tr-TR- Currency
- TRY · Turkish Lira
- Region
- EMEA
Türkiye
Türkiye has 84.1M people, and 75.5M of them are online. Turkish is the most widely spoken language at 93%, one of 14 languages CLDR lists here. Turkish is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to tr-TR.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
75.5M
0%world median 81%100%
90% of 84.1M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2025 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$18,599
Higher than 62% 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
82%
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
14
Turkish 93% · English 17% · Kurdish 5.5%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
488
Very lowVery high
Low 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
94%
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 Türkiye
share of 84.1M people
- Turkishofficial93%78.2M
- English17%14.3M
- Kurdish5.5%4.6M
- Levantine Arabic5.2%4.4M
- Zaza1.4%1.2M
- Kabardian0.8%647.7K
- Azerbaijani0.8%622.5K
- Azerbaijani0.7%546.8K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%. 6 more languages sit below the top eight, at 2.2% combined.
CLDR records Turkish in 12 territories and 82.4M speakers in total; Türkiye holds 95% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Turkish profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (tr-TR).
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 Nisan 2026
Short: 21.04.2026
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
₺1.234,56
1,234.56 in TRY · Turkish Lira