- ISO 639
fr- Its own name
- français
- Script
- Latin
- Direction
- Left to right
French
French (français) is spoken by 333M people across 64 territories in CLDR, and is official nationally in 44 of them. France holds 20% of its speakers.
Reach summary
What one translation into French covers, across every market that speaks it.
Speakers
333M
France 20% · Congo - Kinshasa 18% · Cameroon 6%
First and second language speakers, summed across the 64 territories CLDR records. The bar splits them by territory.
Online speakers
203.2M
0%100%
61% 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
20%
0%100%
France, the largest single territory, holds 20% of speakers. Spread out enough that regional wording and currency will come up.
Territories
64
44 where it is official nationally, 44 where at least one person in five speaks it. The rest are diaspora and minority populations, which CLDR does record.
Reachable GDP
$51.4T
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
1.10×
1.0×1.6×+
About 10% above a mainstream pair, reflecting how many vendors work in it. It feeds the budget estimator.
Where French 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FranceFR | 97% | 66.3M | 58.8M | official |
| Congo - KinshasaCD | 51% | 58.9M | 11.6M | official |
| CameroonCM | 68% | 21.1M | 9.7M | official |
| AlgeriaDZ | 33% | 15.5M | 12M | official |
| GermanyDE | 18% | 15.1M | 14.2M | minority or diaspora |
| MoroccoMA | 36% | 13.5M | 12.3M | official |
| ItalyIT | 20% | 12.2M | 10.9M | major |
| United KingdomGB | 17% | 11.6M | 11.1M | minority or diaspora |
| CanadaCA | 29% | 11.3M | 10.6M | official |
| Côte d’IvoireCI | 34% | 10.2M | 4.2M | official |
| BurundiBI | 59% | 8M | 689.2K | official |
| MadagascarMG | 27% | 8M | 1.5M | official |
| TunisiaTN | 53% | 6.4M | 4.9M | official |
| Burkina FasoBF | 25% | 5.8M | 1.6M | official |
| BeninBJ | 34% | 5M | 1.7M | official |
| HaitiHT | 42% | 4.9M | 2.4M | official |
| SenegalSN | 26% | 4.9M | 2.9M | official |
| BelgiumBE | 38% | 4.6M | 4.4M | official |
| GuineaGN | 27% | 3.8M | 1.3M | official |
| MaliML | 17% | 3.7M | 1.4M | official |
| Congo - BrazzavilleCG | 61% | 3.7M | 1.8M | official |
| TogoTG | 41% | 3.7M | 1.4M | official |
| SwitzerlandCH | 39% | 3.5M | 3.4M | official |
| NigerNE | 13% | 3.4M | 532.8K | official |
| NetherlandsNL | 19% | 3.4M | 3.3M | minority or diaspora |
| ChadTD | 13% | 2.5M | 313.4K | official |
| RomaniaRO | 12% | 2.2M | 2M | minority or diaspora |
| LebanonLB | 38% | 2M | 1.6M | major |
| United StatesUS | 0.6% | 1.9M | 1.8M | minority or diaspora |
| Central African RepublicCF | 29% | 1.6M | 225.9K | official |
| GabonGA | 63% | 1.5M | 1.1M | official |
| PortugalPT | 15% | 1.5M | 1.4M | minority or diaspora |
| SyriaSY | 5.9% | 1.4M | 475.5K | minority or diaspora |
| AustriaAT | 13% | 1.2M | 1.1M | minority or diaspora |
| MauritiusMU | 73% | 956.7K | 701.3K | official |
| RwandaRW | 5.8% | 790.2K | 250.5K | official |
| GreeceGR | 7.3% | 763.7K | 658.8K | minority or diaspora |
| RéunionRE | 89% | 701K | — | official |
| IrelandIE | 13% | 680.4K | 661.2K | minority or diaspora |
| LuxembourgLU | 92% | 617.6K | 612.2K | official |
| MauritaniaMR | 13% | 562.6K | 257.6K | minority or diaspora |
| Equatorial GuineaGQ | 29% | 520.8K | 329.7K | official |
| DjiboutiDJ | 50% | 497.5K | 324.9K | official |
| GuadeloupeGP | 84% | 380.3K | — | official |
| MartiniqueMQ | 81% | 353.3K | — | official |
| Guinea-BissauGW | 15% | 319.9K | 95.2K | minority or diaspora |
| New CaledoniaNC | 99% | 301.1K | 246.9K | official |
| French PolynesiaPF | 98% | 297.5K | 216.3K | official |
| ComorosKM | 26% | 234K | 76.1K | official |
| French GuianaGF | 62% | 123.7K | — | official |
| MayotteYT | 63% | 122.2K | — | official |
| HungaryHU | 1.2% | 118.3K | 110.9K | minority or diaspora |
| VanuatuVU | 31% | 98.6K | 22K | official |
| CyprusCY | 6.6% | 87.2K | 78.1K | minority or diaspora |
| MaltaMT | 13% | 61.1K | 57.3K | minority or diaspora |
| SeychellesSC | 53% | 52K | 45.7K | official |
| São Tomé & PríncipeST | 20% | 44.7K | 26.4K | major |
| MonacoMC | 97% | 30.9K | 30.6K | official |
| St. MartinMF | 84% | 27.7K | — | official |
| Wallis & FutunaWF | 83% | 13.3K | — | official |
| St. BarthélemyBL | 85% | 6K | — | official |
| AndorraAD | 6.8% | 5.8K | 5.5K | minority or diaspora |
| St. Pierre & MiquelonPM | 100% | 5.1K | — | official |
| French Southern TerritoriesTF | 100% | 140 | — | major |
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
3
Every counted message needs up to 3 arms, and the translator needs all of them.
Rate index
1.10×
Prices about 10% above a mainstream pair.