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Date Format by Country: compare 233 countries on 4 metrics.

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Date format by country - Wikipedia

Date Format: Year, Month, Day (YMD)

3 values across 233 entries

Date Format: Day, Month, Year (DMY)

3 values across 233 entries

Date Format: Month, Day, Year (MDY)

4 values across 233 entries

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233 countries


Afghanistan	Yes	Yes	No	Short format: d/m/yyyy (read right to left), Long format: yyyy mmmm d (read right to left)
Albania	Yes	Yes	No	dd/mm/yyyy, Occasionally YMD
Algeria	No	Yes	No	dd/mm/yyyy
American Samoa	No	No	Yes	mm/dd/yy
Andorra	No	Yes	No	—
Angola	No	Yes	No	—
Anguilla	No	Yes	No	—
Antigua and Barbuda	No	Yes	No	—
Argentina	Sometimes	Yes	No	Numeric format: yyyymmdd, Short format: dd/mm/yy+3
Armenia	No	Yes	No	dd.mm.yyyy
Aruba	No	Yes	No	—
Australia	Yes	Yes	No	mmmm d, yyyy is sometimes used informally in the media., yyyy-mm-dd (ISO 8601 date format) is recommended for government publications.
Austria	Yes	Yes	No	d.m.(yy)yy or sometimes d. month (yy)yy)
Azerbaijan	No	Yes	No	dd.mm.yyyy
Bahamas	No	Yes	No	—
Bahrain	No	Yes	No	—
Bangladesh	No	Yes	No	Not officially standardised. Bengali calendar dates are also used.
Barbados	No	Yes	No	—
Belarus	No	Yes	No	dd.mm.yyyy
Belgium	No	Yes	No	dd/mm/yyyy or dd.mm.yyyy
Belize	No	Yes	No	—
Benin	No	Yes	No	—
Bermuda	No	Yes	No	—
Bhutan	Yes	No	No	—
Bolivia	No	Yes	No	—
Bosnia and Herzegovina	No	Yes	No	d. m. yyyy. or d. mmmm yyyy
Botswana	Yes	Yes	No	Setswana: yyyy-mm-dd, English: dd/mm/yyyy
Brazil	No	Yes	No	dd/mm/yyyy
British Virgin Islands	No	Yes	No	—
Brunei	No	Yes	No	—
Bulgaria	No	Yes	No	dd.mm.yyyy
Burkina Faso	No	Yes	No	—
Burundi	No	Yes	No	—
Cambodia	No	Yes	No	Short format: dd/mm/yy, Long format: d mmmm yyyy
Cameroon	Yes	Yes	No	(d)d/(m)m/yyyy or d mmmm yyyy for most languages, yyyy-mm-dd for Meta' and Ngomba
Canada	Yes	Yes	Yes	yyyy-mm-dd (ISO 8601) is officially recommended by the Government of Canada and Standards Council of Canada., MDY (mmmm-dd-yyyy) is used by many English-language publications, media products, and government documents.+1
Cape Verde	No	Yes	No	—
Cayman Islands	No	Yes	Yes	DMY and MDY are used interchangeably, with month often spelled out to avoid confusion. Official forms generally tend towards DMY.
Central African Republic	No	Yes	No	—
Chad	No	Yes	No	—
Chile	No	Yes	No	DMY, most commonly d/mmmm/yyyy or dd/mm/yy.
China	Yes	No	No	National standards are yyyy-mm-dd and yyyy年mm月dd日 or yy年m月d日., Uyghur may use yyyy-d-mmm.+1
Colombia	No	Yes	No	—
Comoros	No	Yes	No	—
Cook Islands	No	Yes	No	—
Costa Rica	No	Yes	No	—
Croatia	No	Yes	No	d. m. yyyy. or d. mmmm yyyy
Cuba	Yes	Yes	No	—
Curacao	No	Yes	No	—
Cyprus	No	Yes	No	dd/mm/yyyy
Czechia	Yes	Yes	No	d. m. yyyy or d. month yyyy
Denmark	Yes	Yes	No	dd.mm.(yy)yy is the traditional Danish date format., yyyy-mm-dd and yyyymmdd are accepted, but less common.+1
Djibouti	Yes	Yes	No	In Afar, French and Somali:, Short: dd/mm/yyyy or d/m/yy+4
Dominica	No	Yes	No	—
Dominican Republic	No	Yes	No	—
DR Congo	No	Yes	No	—
Ecuador	No	Yes	No	—
Egypt	No	Yes	No	—
El Salvador	No	Yes	No	—
Equatorial Guinea	No	Yes	No	dd/mm/yyyy or d mmmm yyyy
Eritrea	Yes	Yes	Sometimes	In Bilen, English, Tigre and Tigrinya:, dd/mm/yyyy or d mmmm yyyy+3
Estonia	Sometimes	Yes	No	dd.mm.yyyy, d.m.(yy)yy or d. mmmm yyyy, with yyyy-mm-dd preferred for formal or international uses.
Eswatini	Yes	Yes	No	YMD (in Swati), DMY (in English)
Ethiopia	No	Yes	Sometimes	In Amharic, Tigrinya and Wolaytta:, dd/mm/yyyy or dd mmmm yyyy+2
Falkland Islands	No	Yes	No	—
Faroe Islands	No	Yes	No	—
Fiji	No	Yes	No	—
Finland	No	Yes	Sometimes	Finnish: d.m.yyyy or d. mmmm yyyy, Inari Sami: mmmm d. p. yyyy+5
France	Yes	Yes	No	Alsatian, Catalan, Corsican, French and Occitan: dd/mm/yyyy, Breton, Basque, and Interlingua: yyyy-mm-dd
French Guiana	No	Yes	No	—
French Polynesia	No	Yes	No	—
Gabon	No	Yes	No	—
Gambia	No	Yes	No	—
Georgia	No	Yes	No	dd.mm.yyyy or dd-mm-yy
Germany	Yes	Yes	No	Traditional: dd.mm.yyyy, Official: yyyy-mm-dd or d.mmmm yyyy+1
Ghana	Yes	Yes	Yes	dd/mm/yyyy, In Akan: yyyy/mm/dd+1
Gibraltar	No	Yes	No	—
Greece	No	Yes	No	—
Greenland	No	Yes	Yes	d. mmmm yyyy or (less common) mmmm d.-at, yyyy
Grenada	No	Yes	No	—
Guadeloupe	No	Yes	No	—
Guam	No	No	Yes	—
Guatemala	No	Yes	No	Short format: dd/mm/yyyy, Long format: d de mmmm de yyyy or dddd, d de mmmm de yyyy
Guernsey	No	Yes	No	—
Guinea	Yes	Yes	Sometimes	In French and Fulah:, dd/mm/yyyy or d mmmm yyyy+2
Guinea-Bissau	No	Yes	No	—
Guyana	No	Yes	No	—
Haiti	No	Yes	No	—
Honduras	No	Yes	No	—
Hong Kong	Yes	Yes	Rarely	Chinese: (yy)yy年(m)m月(d)d日, British English: (d)d/(m)m/(yy)yy or d mmmm yyyy. Both dd-mmmm-yyyy and mmmm-dd-yyyy are also seen, with the latter more common in media.
Hungary	Yes	No	No	yyyy. mm. (d)d. or yyyy. mmmm. dd. Month may be indicated by Roman numerals, though year and day are always Arabic numerals.
Iceland	No	Yes	No	dd.mm.yyyy
India	Yes	Yes	Sometimes	dd-mm-yyyy or yyyy-mm-dd. However, Bodo language favors mm/dd/yyyy and English-language media favor mmmm dd, yyyy.
Indonesia	No	Yes	Rarely	MDY or DMY (gov't and academic media)
Iran	Yes	Yes	No	Persian calendar: yyyy/mm/dd or yy/m/d, Gregorian: dd/mm/yyyy+1
Iraq	No	Yes	No	dd/mm/yyyy
Ireland	No	Yes	No	dd-mm-yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy
Isle of Man	No	Yes	No	—
Israel	No	Yes	No	dd.mm.yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy
Italy	No	Yes	No	dd/mm/yyyy
Ivory Coast	No	Yes	No	—
Jamaica	Yes	Yes	No	—
Japan	Yes	No	No	Often in the form yyyy年mm月dd日, May use Japanese era year.
Jersey	No	Yes	No	—
Jordan	No	Yes	No	—
Kazakhstan	Sometimes	Yes	No	Kazakh:, yyyy.dd.mm or yyyy 'ж'. d mmmm+2
Kenya	Yes	Yes	Yes	yy/mm/dd or dd/mm/yyyy, In Swahili: m/d/yyyy
Kiribati	No	Yes	No	—
Kuwait	No	Yes	No	—
Kyrgyzstan	No	Yes	No	dd.mm.yyyy
Laos	No	Yes	No	—
Latvia	No	Yes	No	dd.mm.yyyy or yyyy. d. mmmm
Lebanon	No	Yes	No	—
Lesotho	Yes	Yes	No	Sesotho: yyyy-mm-dd, English: dd/mm/yyyy
Liberia	No	Yes	No	—
Libya	No	Yes	No	—
Liechtenstein	No	Yes	No	dd.mm.yyyy
Lithuania	Yes	No	No	yyyy-mm-dd or yyyy d
Luxembourg	No	Yes	No	dd.mm.yyyy
Macau	Yes	Yes	No	Chinese: YMD (年月日）\| Portuguese and British English: DMY
Madagascar	No	Yes	No	—
Malawi	No	Yes	No	—
Malaysia	No	Yes	No	dd-mm-yyyy
Maldives	Yes	Yes	No	yy/mm/dd or dd mmmm yyyy
Mali	No	Yes	No	—
Malta	No	Yes	No	—
Marshall Islands	No	No	Yes	—
Martinique	No	Yes	No	—
Mauritania	No	Yes	No	—
Mauritius	No	Yes	No	—
Mayotte	No	Yes	No	—
Mexico	No	Yes	No	—
Micronesia	No	No	Yes	—
Moldova	No	Yes	No	—
Monaco	No	Yes	No	—
Mongolia	Yes	No	No	yyyy-mm-dd or yyyy оны (m)m сарын (d)d., Casual use: yyyy/(m)m/(d)d or yyyy.(m)m.(d)d
Montenegro	No	Yes	No	d.m.yyyy. or dd.mm.yyyy
Montserrat	No	Yes	No	—
Morocco	No	Yes	No	—
Mozambique	No	Yes	No	—
Myanmar	Yes	Yes	No	YMD (Burmese calendar) or DMY (Gregorian calendar)
Namibia	Yes	Yes	No	DMY
Nauru	No	Yes	No	—
Nepal	Yes	Yes	Sometimes	YMD in Nepali calendar, MDY common in English-language media.
Netherlands	No	Yes	No	dd-mm-yyyy
New Caledonia	No	Yes	No	—
New Zealand	No	Yes	No	—
Nicaragua	No	Yes	No	—
Niger	No	Yes	No	—
Nigeria	No	Yes	Sometimes	English, Hausa, Igbo: (d)d/(m)m/(yy)yy or d mmmm yyyy, Edo, Fulani, Ibibio, Kanuri and Yoruba: mmmm dd, yyyy
Niue	No	Yes	No	dd/mm/yyyy
North Korea	Yes	No	No	—
North Macedonia	No	Yes	No	dd.mm.yyyy
Northern Mariana Islands	No	No	Yes	—
Norway	Yes	Yes	Rarely	dd.mm.yyyy or d.mm.yy. yyyy-mm-dd may be used for technical purposes, and d/m-y is widely accepted shorthand.
Oman	No	Yes	No	—
Pakistan	No	Yes	No	—
Palau	No	Yes	Rarely	English: (m)m/(d)d/(yy)yy, Japanese: (yy)yy/m(m)/(d)d
Palestine	No	Yes	No	dd/mm/yyyy
Panama	No	Yes	Yes	mm/dd/yyyy or d de mmmm de yyyy
Papua New Guinea	No	Yes	No	—
Paraguay	No	Yes	No	—
Peru	No	Yes	No	—
Philippines	No	Yes	Yes	English: mmmm d, yyyy or DMY (govt and official docs), Filipino: ika-d ng mmmm, yyyy or mmmm d, yyyyc+1
Poland	Yes	Yes	No	Traditional: dd/mm/yyyy. May be d yyyy or d yyyy), Official: YYYY-MM-DD (ISO 8601)
Portugal	Yes	Yes	No	dd/mm/yyyy or dd-mm-yyyy, with yyyy-mm-dd rising in frequency
Puerto Rico	No	Yes	Yes	English: mmmm d, yyyy, Spanish: d de mmmm de yyyy
Qatar	No	Yes	No	—
Republic of the Congo	No	Yes	No	—
Reunion	No	Yes	No	—
Romania	No	Yes	No	dd.mm.yyyy or (d)d-mmm-yyyy or (d)d-month as Roman numeral-yyyy
Russia	Yes	Yes	No	yyyy-mm-dd, dd.mm.(yy)yy, or (most official) d yyyy
Rwanda	Yes	Yes	No	Kinyarwanda: yyyy/mm/dd or yyyy mmmm dd, English and French: dd/mm/yyyy or d mmmm yyyy
Saint Barthelemy	No	Yes	No	—
Saint Kitts and Nevis	No	Yes	No	—
Saint Lucia	No	Yes	No	—
Saint Martin	No	Yes	No	—
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	No	Yes	No	—
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	No	Yes	No	—
Samoa	No	Yes	No	—
San Marino	No	Yes	No	—
Sao Tome and Principe	No	Yes	No	—
Saudi Arabia	No	Yes	No	dd/mm/yyyy
Senegal	No	Yes	No	—
Serbia	No	Yes	No	d.m.yyyy. or d. mmmm yyyy
Seychelles	No	Yes	No	—
Sierra Leone	No	Yes	No	—
Singapore	Yes	Yes	Sometimes	Chinese: yyyy年m月d日, English, Malay, Tamil: DMY+1
Sint Maarten	No	Yes	No	—
Slovakia	No	Yes	No	d. m. yyyy
Slovenia	No	Yes	No	d. m. yyyy or d. mmmm yyyy
Solomon Islands	No	Yes	No	—
Somalia	No	Yes	No	dd/mm/yyyy
South Africa	Yes	Yes	Sometimes	English: yyyy/mm/dd or dd mmmm yyyy, Afrikaans: yyyy-mm-dd or dd mmmm yyyy+2
South Korea	Yes	No	No	Standard: yyyy-mm-dd or (yy)yy년 (m)m월 (d)d일, Casual: (yy)yy.(m)m.(d)d.
South Sudan	No	Yes	No	—
Spain	Yes	Yes	No	Asturian, Catalan, Galician, Spanish and Valencian: dd/mm/yyyy, Basque: yyyy/mm/dd
Sri Lanka	Yes	Yes	Rarely	Sinhala: yyyy-mm-dd, Tamil: d-m-yyyy+1
Sudan	No	Yes	No	—
Suriname	No	Yes	No	—
Sweden	Yes	Yes	No	Standard: yyyy-mm-dd, with dd.mm.yyyy occasionally required by EU., Alternates: d/m (casual), d mmmm yyyy or den d mmmm yyyy
Switzerland	No	Yes	No	dd.mm.yyyy or d. mmmm yyyy
Syria	No	Yes	No	—
Taiwan	Yes	No	No	yyyy/(m)m/(d)d or yyyy-mm-dd or yyyy年m月d日
Tajikistan	No	Yes	No	dd.mm.yyyy
Tanzania	No	Yes	No	—
Thailand	No	Yes	No	dd/mm/yyyy. May use Buddhist Era years instead of CE years.
Timor-Leste	No	Yes	No	—
Togo	No	Yes	Yes	French: dd/mm/yyyy, Ewe: mm/dd/(yy)yy
Tokelau	No	Yes	No	—
Tonga	No	Yes	No	—
Trinidad and Tobago	No	Yes	No	—
Tunisia	No	Yes	No	—
Turkey	No	Yes	No	dd.mm.yyyy or d mmmm yyyy or dddd mmmm d, yyyy (Ex: Friday, June 9, 2023)
Turkmenistan	No	Yes	No	dd.mm.(yy)yy ý. or yyyy-nji ýylyň d-nji mmmm
Turks and Caicos Islands	No	Yes	No	—
Tuvalu	No	Yes	No	—
Uganda	No	Yes	No	—
Ukraine	No	Yes	No	dd.mm.(yy)yy or dd/mm/yyyy
United Arab Emirates	No	Yes	No	—
United Kingdom	Yes	Yes	No	dd/mm/yyyy. Media may use dddd mmmm d, yyyy (Ex: Friday, June 9, 2023), Use of YMD with yyyy year is rising, particularly in technical applications.
United States	Yes	Rarely	Yes	Civilian: m/d/yy or m/d/yyyy, Military, academic, govt. and other technical: d mmm(m) yyyy or yyyy-mm-dd
United States Virgin Islands	No	No	Yes	—
Uruguay	No	Yes	No	—
Uzbekistan	Yes	Yes	No	Cyrillic: dd.mm.yyyy; Latin: dd/mm yyyy
Vanuatu	No	Yes	No	—
Vatican City	No	No	Yes	—
Venezuela	No	Yes	No	—
Vietnam	Yes	Yes	Sometimes	Vietnamese:, Long: Ngày (d)d tháng (m)m năm yyyy or ngày (d)d tháng (month in textform) năm yyyy+3
Wallis and Futuna	No	Yes	No	—
Yemen	No	Yes	No	—
Zambia	No	Yes	No	—
Zimbabwe	Yes	No	No	—

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Where does this date format by country data come from?: Rankodex compiles it from World Population Review and the primary sources it cites: Date format by country - Wikipedia.