- ISO 3166
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en-US- Currency
- USD · US Dollar
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United States
United States has 342M people, and 323.8M of them are online. English is the most widely spoken language at 96%, one of 10 languages CLDR lists here. English is official nationally, and Spanish is official in part of the territory. A product shipping here defaults to en-US.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
323.8M
0%world median 81%100%
95% of 342M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$90,027
Higher than 95% 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
97%
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
10
English 96% · Spanish 9.6% · Traditional Chinese 0.7%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
—
Not in the EF EPI 2025 table. Absent is not the same as low.
Adult literacy
99%
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 United States
share of 342M people
- Englishofficial96%328.3M
- Spanishregional9.6%32.8M
- Traditional Chinese0.7%2.4M
- French0.6%1.9M
- German0.5%1.6M
- Filipino0.5%1.4M
- Italian0.4%1.2M
- Vietnamese0.4%1.2M
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%. 2 more languages sit below the top eight, at 0.6% combined.
CLDR records English in 145 territories and 1.7B speakers in total; United States holds 19% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The English profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (en-US).
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
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Date
April 21, 2026
Short: 4/21/26
Time
6:30 PM
Week starts Sun
Currency
$1,234.56
1,234.56 in USD · US Dollar