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Mongolia

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LANGUAGE INSIGHT

Official language

Mongolian (80%)

Actual languages

Mongolian (80%), Kazakh (5.9%), Dorbet (2.7%), Bajad (1.9%), Buryat (1.7%), Dariganga (1.4%), other (6.4%)

What the top 150 best localized websites in the world do in Mongolia

(Top 150 websites listed in the Global by Design ranking – published annually by Byte Level Research, this report provides a list of globally localized websites, showcasing best practices and emerging trends in their globalization)

  • 16/150 localize by translating into Mongolian
  • 2/150 localize by translating into Russian
  • 1/150 localizes by translating into Mongolian, Mongolian (Traditional) and Mongolian Sign Language
  • 1/150 localizes by translating into Russian, German, Italian, French and Dutch
  • Localization not available 3M
  • Localization available ABB
  • Localization not available Accenture
  • Localization not available Adidas
  • Localization not available Adobe
  • Localization not available Airbnb
  • Localization not available Aldi
  • Localization not available Amazon
  • Localization not available American Airlines
  • Localization not available American Express
  • Localization not available Apple
  • Localization not available Audi
  • Localization not available Autodesk
  • Localization available Avis
  • Localization not available Bayer
  • Localization not available BMW
  • Localization not available Booking.com
  • Localization not available Bosch
  • Localization not available British Airways
  • Localization not available Bumble
  • Localization not available Burberry
  • Localization not available BYD
  • Localization not available Canon
  • Localization not available Capgemini
  • Localization not available Cartier
  • Localization not available Caterpillar
  • Localization not available Chevrolet
  • Localization not available Cisco Systems
  • Localization not available Citibank
  • Localization not available Coca-Cola
  • Localization not available Costco
  • Localization not available Dell
  • Localization not available Deloitte
  • Localization not available Delta
  • Localization not available DHL
  • Localization not available Disney+
  • Localization not available Dyson
  • Localization not available eBay
  • Localization not available Eli Lilly
  • Localization not available Emirates
  • Localization not available Ernst & Young
  • Localization available Facebook
  • Localization not available FedEx
  • Localization available Ford
  • Localization not available Four Seasons
  • Localization not available Fujifilm
  • Localization not available GE
  • Localization not available Gillette
  • Localization not available GoDaddy
  • Localization available Google
  • Localization not available Gucci
  • Localization not available Haier
  • Localization not available Heineken
  • Localization not available Hermès
  • Localization not available Hertz
  • Localization not available Hilton
  • Localization not available Hisense
  • Localization not available Hitachi
  • Localization not available Honda
  • Localization not available Hotels.com
  • Localization not available HP
  • Localization not available HP Enterprise
  • Localization not available HSBC
  • Localization available Huawei
  • Localization not available Hyatt
  • Localization available Hyundai
  • Localization not available IBM
  • Localization not available IKEA
  • Localization not available Intel
  • Localization available InterContinental Hotels
  • Localization not available J&J
  • Localization not available Jack Daniel's
  • Localization available Jehovah’s Witnesses
  • Localization not available John Deere
  • Localization not available Kellogg's
  • Localization available Kia
  • Localization not available KPMG
  • Localization not available L'Oréal
  • Localization not available Land Rover
  • Localization not available LEGO
  • Localization not available Lenovo
  • Localization available Lexus
  • Localization not available LG
  • Localization not available Louis Vuitton
  • Localization not available Lululemon
  • Localization not available LUSH
  • Localization not available Marriott
  • Localization not available MasterCard
  • Localization not available McDonald's
  • Localization available Mercedes-Benz
  • Localization not available Merck
  • Localization not available Microsoft
  • Localization not available Mitsubishi Electric
  • Localization not available Nestlé
  • Localization not available Netflix
  • Localization not available Nike
  • Localization not available Nikon
  • Localization not available Nintendo
  • Localization not available Nio
  • Localization not available Nissan
  • Localization not available NIVEA
  • Localization not available Oracle
  • Localization not available Pampers
  • Localization not available Panasonic
  • Localization not available PayPal
  • Localization available Pepsi
  • Localization not available Pfizer
  • Localization not available Philips
  • Localization not available Pitney Bowes
  • Localization not available Porsche
  • Localization not available Procter & Gamble
  • Localization available PWC
  • Localization not available Revolut
  • Localization not available Rolex
  • Localization not available Royal Caribbean
  • Localization not available Salesforce
  • Localization available Samsung
  • Localization not available Sanofi
  • Localization not available SAP
  • Localization not available Sephora
  • Localization not available Shopify
  • Localization not available Siemens
  • Localization not available Sony
  • Localization not available Spotify
  • Localization not available Starbucks
  • Localization not available Steelcase
  • Localization not available Stripe
  • Localization not available Subaru
  • Localization not available Tesla
  • Localization available The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • Localization not available Tiffany
  • Localization not available Tinder
  • Localization not available Toshiba
  • Localization available Toyota
  • Localization not available TripAdvisor
  • Localization not available Uber
  • Localization not available United Airlines
  • Localization not available UPS
  • Localization available Visa
  • Localization not available Volkswagen
  • Localization not available Volvo Cars
  • Localization not available Vrbo
  • Localization not available Walmart
  • Localization not available Western Union
  • Localization available Wikipedia
  • Localization not available Wise
  • Localization not available WordPress
  • Localization not available Workday
  • Localization available Xerox
  • Localization not available Xiaomi (Mi)
  • Localization not available Zara
  • Localization not available Zoom
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If you need others information, below you can find a selection of economic/social/cultural data

Overview


Language

Official language
Mongolian (80%)

Actual languages
Kazakh (5.9%), Dorbet (2.7%), Bajad (1.9%), Buryat (1.7%), Dariganga (1.4%), other (6.4%)

T-index
0.015%

T-Index ranks countries according to their potential for online sales.

English
Low proficiency (EF) – 72 of 111 countries/regions in the world- 13/24 position in Asia.

Demography

Capital: Ulaanbaatar
Currency: Mongolian tögrög
Population: 3.39 m
Population density: 2/km2

Economy

GDP: 16,81 billion USD (2022)
GDP per capita: 4,946.8 USD ‎(2022) ‎
Exports: $10.5 billion (2021)

Statistics

Internet users: 84.3% penetration, 2.89 million
Unemployment rate: 7.8% (2021)
Urbanisation: 69% (2022)
Literacy: 99% (2020)

Conventions

Numbering system
Arabic numerals with comma as decimal separator.

Date format: yyyy-mm-dd
Time: 24h time system
Country code: 00976

Language data sources: Worldatlas/Britannica//EF/Wikipedia; Demography data sources: IMF/Worldometers; Conventions data source: Wikipedia; Economy data sources: WTO/OEC/CIA/Esomar/Datareportal; Statistics data sources: Datareportal/WorldBank/UN/UNESCO/CEIC/IMF/Culturalatlas/Commisceoglobal

Facts and data


Economy

Imports
$6.82 billion (2021). Refined Petroleum ($1.01B), Cars ($420M), Delivery Trucks ($303M), Trailers and semi-trailers, not mechanically propelled vehicles ($204M), and Electricity ($161M), importing mostly from China ($2.5B), Russia ($1.81B), Japan ($484M), South Korea ($366M), and Germany ($199M).

Financial inclusion factors (over 15 years of  age)
• 98.2% have an account with a financial institution
• 7% have a credit card
• 58.8% have a mobile money account
• 39.5% make online purchases

Ease of doing business
Moderately ease of conducting business is medium (rated 67.8 out of 100). Ranked 10th out of 25 East Asia & Pacific countries. Ranked 81st out of 190 countries worldwide (2022, World Bank)

Exports
$10.5 billion (2021). Copper Ore ($2.9B), Coal Briquettes ($2.74B), Gold ($2.11B), Iron Ore ($945M), and Animal Hair ($325M), exporting mostly to China ($7.64B), Switzerland ($1.97B), Singapore ($255M), South Korea ($221M), and Russia ($114M).

In 2021, Mongolia was the world’s biggest exporter of Animal Hair ($325M).

Main local online stores
unegui.mn, amazon.com

Economic freedom
‘Moderately free’ (rated 61.7 out of 100). Ranked 15th out of 27 East Asia & Pacific countries. Ranked 73rd out of 186 countries worldwide (2022, Heritage Foundation and Wall Street Journal).

Global Innovation Index
Ranked 12th out of 17 South East Asia, East Asia and Oceania countries, and 71st out of 132 worldwide.

The Global Innovation Index captures the innovation
ecosystem performance of 132 economies and tracks the most recent global innovation trends.

Economy data sources: WTO/OEC/CIA/Esomar/Datareportal


Service Imoprts (2019)
Service Exports (2019)

Source: OEC


Most specialised products by RCA Index

Specialisation is measured using Revealed Comparative Advantage, an index that takes the ratio between Mongolia observed and expected exports in each product

Source: OEC


Most Complex Products by PCI

Product Complexity Index measures the knowledge intensity of a product by considering the knowledge intensity of its exporters

Source: OEC


Export Opportunities by Relatedness

Relatedness measures the distance between a country's current exports and each product, the column chart show only products that Mongolia is not specialized in

Source: OEC


T-index

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Media

Media language Mongolian, English.

Information channels
Mongolia’s public broadcaster competes with privately-owned and satellite and cable outlets. Press freedom is generally respected, says the US-based NGO Freedom House. But media ownership is opaque and many journalists self-censor to avoid offending political or business interests. Reporters Without Borders says that more than half of all the defamation cases in Mongolia are brought against journalists and media. Despite a high level of literacy, newspaper circulations tend to be small. Some titles are published by political parties. BBC World Service broadcasts on 103.1 FM in Ulan Bator.

The press

Odriyn Sonin (Daily News) – private daily
Onoodor – private daily, the country’s biggest
Zuuny Medee – private daily
Unen (Truth) – Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party daily, the country’s oldest newspaper, founded in 1920
The UB Post – English-language weekly

Television

Mongolian National Broadcaster (MNB) – national, public broadcaster
TV 25 – private
UBS TV – owned by Ulan Bator city government
C1 – private
TV5 – private
TV9 – private

Radio

Mongolian Radio – public, sole national broadcaster

News agency

Montsame – state-owned, English-language pages

Media data source: BBC


Internet Data

Internet users
84.3% penetration, 2.89 million

Share of web traffic by device
58.81% mobile phones, 40.35% computers (laptops and desktops), 0.84% tablet devices and 0.01% other devices.

Median speed of mobile Internet connection
18.37  Mbps

Median speed of fixed Internet connection
52.47 Mbps

Mobile connection as a percentage of total population: 140.2%

Percentage of mobile connections that are broadband (3G-5G): 80.9%

Most popular web search engines
Google (95.57%), Bing (3.03%), Yahoo! (0.54%), YANDEX (0.37%),  Baidu (0.22%), other (0.28%).

Most used social media
Facebook (87.91%), Pinterest (4.74%), Twitter (3.36%), YouTube (1.79%), Instagram (1.66%), reddit (0.29%), LinkedIn (0.13%), other (0.12%).

Internet data sources: Datareportal/Statcounter


Social statistics

Life expectancy
71 yrs (2021)

Corruption perceptions Index
Mongolia scored 33 out of 100, ranked 116 out 180 countries worldwide.

Current health expenditure
4.94% of GDP

CO2 emissions
6.4 metric tons per capita

World Happiness Index
Mongolia ranked 68 out of 146 countries, with a score of 5.761.

Current education expenditure
91.1% of total expenditure in public institutions.


Social statistics sources: WorldBank/UN/UNESCO/CEIC/IMF


Tertiary education in Mongolia

Source: UNESCO

Tertiary education in Mongolia by sex

Source: UNESCO


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Languages research


Languages in Mongolia

Legend

  • Mongolian

  • Kalmyk-Oirat

  • Peripheral Mongolian

  • Buriat

  • Evenki

  • Darkhat

  • Tuva

  • Chinese

  • Kazakh

  • Uygur


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