- ISO 639
de- Its own name
- Deutsch
- Script
- Latin
- Direction
- Left to right
German
German (Deutsch) is spoken by 141.9M people across 27 territories in CLDR, and is official nationally in 6 of them. Germany holds 54% of its speakers.
Reach summary
What one translation into German covers, across every market that speaks it.
Speakers
141.9M
Germany 54% · Netherlands 9% · Austria 6%
First and second language speakers, summed across the 27 territories CLDR records. The bar splits them by territory.
Online speakers
132.6M
0%100%
93% of speakers, once each territory's speaker count is scaled by its World Bank internet rate. Territories with no internet figure contribute nothing, so this is a floor.
Concentration
54%
0%100%
Germany, the largest single territory, holds 54% of speakers. Spread out enough that regional wording and currency will come up.
Territories
27
6 where it is official nationally, 10 where at least one person in five speaks it. The rest are diaspora and minority populations, which CLDR does record.
Reachable GDP
$56.0T
Combined GDP of every territory where the language appears. It counts whole economies, not the speakers' share, so read it as an upper bound.
Translation rate
1.20×
1.0×1.6×+
About 20% above a mainstream pair, reflecting how many vendors work in it. It feeds the budget estimator.
Where German is spoken
Every territory CLDR records, largest speaker count first. Share is of that territory's own population, so the column has no total.
| Territory | Share of that market | Speakers | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GermanyDE | 91% | 76.5M | 71.6M | official |
| NetherlandsNL | 71% | 12.6M | 12.2M | major |
| AustriaAT | 97% | 8.7M | 8M | official |
| PolandPL | 19% | 7.4M | 6.5M | minority or diaspora |
| SwitzerlandCH | 76% | 6.7M | 6.6M | official |
| United KingdomGB | 9% | 6.2M | 5.9M | minority or diaspora |
| FranceFR | 5% | 3.4M | 3M | minority or diaspora |
| DenmarkDK | 47% | 2.8M | 2.8M | major |
| BelgiumBE | 22% | 2.6M | 2.5M | official |
| BrazilBR | 0.9% | 1.8M | 1.6M | minority or diaspora |
| HungaryHU | 18% | 1.8M | 1.7M | minority or diaspora |
| CzechiaCZ | 15% | 1.6M | 1.4M | minority or diaspora |
| United StatesUS | 0.5% | 1.6M | 1.5M | minority or diaspora |
| KazakhstanKZ | 6.4% | 1.3M | 1.2M | minority or diaspora |
| SlovakiaSK | 22% | 1.2M | 1.1M | major |
| FinlandFI | 18% | 1M | 949.2K | minority or diaspora |
| ItalyIT | 1.6% | 975.4K | 870.3K | minority or diaspora |
| SloveniaSI | 42% | 881.1K | 799.7K | major |
| BulgariaBG | 8% | 542.6K | 447.3K | minority or diaspora |
| GreeceGR | 5% | 523.1K | 451.2K | minority or diaspora |
| CanadaCA | 1.2% | 465.5K | 439.3K | minority or diaspora |
| LuxembourgLU | 63% | 422.9K | 419.2K | official |
| LithuaniaLT | 14% | 367.9K | 328.1K | minority or diaspora |
| ParaguayPY | 2.9% | 218.2K | 178K | minority or diaspora |
| LiechtensteinLI | 100% | 40.3K | 39.6K | official |
| RomaniaRO | 0.3% | 38.1K | 34.8K | minority or diaspora |
| NamibiaNA | 0.9% | 25.2K | 16.4K | minority or diaspora |
CLDR does record diaspora populations, so a language usually appears in more territories than its home markets, at small shares. Those rows rarely justify a launch on their own, but they are why total reach runs higher than any one country page shows. A dash in the online column means no World Bank internet figure, not zero.
What it takes to ship
The work that is not translation.
Writing system
Latin
Lays out left to right, the same as the source. Platform default fonts cover this script.
Plural categories
2
Every counted message needs up to 2 arms, and the translator needs all of them.
Rate index
1.20×
Prices about 20% above a mainstream pair.
Engineering note. Long compound nouns. Reserve +50% width.