ISO 3166
TR
Primary locale
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.

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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

75.5M

0%world median 81%100%

90% of 84.1M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2025 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.

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 what people can spend, not what your product will earn.

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 6%

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, so treat it as colour for a discussion. 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 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 Türkiye

share of 84.1M people

Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible. 6 more languages sit below the top eight, at 2.1% combined.

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 tr-TR, the dominant locale for this market.

Plural categories

2

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 Nisan 2026

Short: 21.04.2026

Time

18:30

Week starts Mon

Currency

₺1.234,56

1,234.56 in TRY · Turkish Lira

Engineering note · Turkish. Dotless i: locale-aware toLowerCase required.