- ISO 3166
UA- Main language + region
uk-UA- Currency
- UAH · Ukrainian Hryvnia
- Region
- EMEA · CIS
Ukraine
Ukraine has 35.7M people, and 29.4M of them are online. Ukrainian is the most widely spoken language at 65%, one of 11 languages CLDR lists here. Ukrainian and Russian are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to uk-UA.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
29.4M
0%world median 81%100%
82% of 35.7M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$5,866
Higher than 38% 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
88%
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
11
Ukrainian 65% · Russian 46% · Polish 2.4%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 2 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
526
Very lowVery high
Moderate 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
100%
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 Ukraine
share of 35.7M people
- Ukrainianofficial65%23.2M
- Russianofficial46%16.4M
- Polish2.4%855.9K
- Yiddish1.3%463.6K
- Rusyn1.2%427.9K
- Belarusian0.9%296K
- Crimean Tatar0.6%199.7K
- Romanian0.6%185.4K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%. 3 more languages sit below the top eight, at 1.3% combined.
CLDR records Ukrainian in 5 territories and 24.1M speakers in total; Ukraine holds 96% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Ukrainian profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (uk-UA).
Plural categories
4
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Cyrillic
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 квітня 2026 р.
Short: 21.04.26
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
1 234,56 ₴
1,234.56 in UAH · Ukrainian Hryvnia
The engineering behind the flags: Plural rules: why each category needs its own translation