- ISO 3166
ZW- Main language + region
sn-ZW- Currency
- ZWG · Zimbabwean Gold
- Region
- EMEA · SSA
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe has 17.2M people, and 7.1M of them are online. Shona is the most widely spoken language at 81%, one of 9 languages CLDR lists here. Shona, English, and North Ndebele are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to sn-ZW.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
7.1M
0%world median 81%100%
42% of 17.2M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$3,021
Higher than 23% 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
50%
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
9
Shona 81% · English 42% · North Ndebele 12%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 3 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
602
Very lowVery high
Very high 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
84%
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 Zimbabwe
share of 17.2M people
- Shonaofficial81%13.9M
- Englishofficial42%7.2M
- North Ndebeleofficial12%2.1M
- Manyika6.5%1.1M
- Ndau6.1%1M
- Kalanga5.3%909K
- Nyanja1.9%325.9K
- Venda0.7%109.8K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%. 1 more language sits below the top eight, at 0.3% combined.
CLDR also records diaspora populations, so a language reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (sn-ZW).
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
2026 Kubvumbi 21
Short: 2026-04-21
Time
18:30
Week starts Sun
Currency
ZWG 1,234.56
1,234.56 in ZWG · Zimbabwean Gold