- ISO 3166
VE- Main language + region
es-VE- Currency
- VES · Venezuelan Bolívar
- Region
- LATAM · South America
Venezuela
Venezuela has 31.3M people, and 24M of them are online. Spanish is the most widely spoken language at 82%, one of 1 language CLDR lists here. Spanish is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to es-VE.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
24M
0%world median 81%100%
77% of 31.3M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$3,495
Higher than 27% 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
87%
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
1
Spanish 82%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
520
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
96%
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 Venezuela
share of 31.3M people
- Spanishofficial82%25.6M
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.
CLDR records Spanish in 36 territories and 507.3M speakers in total; Venezuela holds 5% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Spanish profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (es-VE).
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
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21 de abril de 2026
Short: 21/4/26
Time
6:30 p. m.
Week starts Sun
Currency
Bs.S 1.234,56
1,234.56 in VES · Venezuelan Bolívar