Barcode Country Codes
The common question about barcodes that we get a lot from our customers is whether you can tell where something is manufactured.
Barcode prefixes do not provide identification country of origin for a specific product. They merely provide number capacity for the assignment of barcode prefixes by the GS1 to different countries. UPC Barcodes do not show the leading zero. A UPC Barcode that starts with 7 would have a country code of 070 – 079.
The ONLY legal way to get started with these given country codes is to join GS1 – that means completing the membership forms, and paying GS1 joining fees and annual membership fees – which is very costly (GS1 only licenses the numbers to you – so you have to pay their annual fees for the remainder of the product life per year).
There is a misconception of the barcode number indicating the product's country of origin. Please see this Snopes article about the roots of this myth and its debunking. All barcodes and barcode systems are designed for international use, so there are virtually no restrictions based on the country of origin worldwide.
List of UPC and EAN barcode country codes
Here is the current list of barcode country codes used worldwide.
- 000 – 019 United States and Canada
- 020 – 029 Restricted distribution
- 030 – 039 United States drugs (National Drug Code)
- 040 – 049 Used to issue restricted circulation numbers within a geographic region
- 050 – 059 Reserved for future use
- 060 – 099 United States and Canada
- 100 – 139 United States
- 200 – 299 Restricted distribution
- 300 – 379 France and Monaco
- 380 Bulgaria
- 383 Slovenia
- 385 Croatia
- 387 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 389 Montenegro
- 400 – 440 Germany
- 450 – 459 Japan
- 460 – 469 Russia
- 470 Kyrgyzstan
- 471 Taiwan
- 474 Estonia
- 475 Latvia
- 476 Azerbaijan
- 477 Lithuania
- 478 Uzbekistan
- 479 Sri Lanka
- 480 Philippines
- 481 Belarus
- 482 Ukraine
- 484 Moldova
- 485 Armenia
- 486 Georgia
- 487 Kazakhstan
- 488 Tajikistan
- 489 Hong Kong
- 490 – 499 Japan
- 500 – 509 United Kingdom
- 520 – 521 Greece
- 528 Lebanon
- 529 Cyprus
- 530 Albania
- 531 Macedonia
- 535 Malta
- 539 Ireland
- 540 – 549 Belgium and Luxembourg
- 560 Portugal
- 569 Iceland
- 570 – 579 Denmark, Faroe Islands and Greenland
- 590 Poland
- 594 Romania
- 599 Hungary
- 600 – 601 South Africa
- 603 Ghana
- 604 Senegal
- 608 Bahrain
- 609 Mauritius
- 611 Morocco
- 613 Algeria
- 615 Nigeria
- 616 Kenya
- 618 Côte d’Ivoire
- 619 Tunisia
- 621 Syria
- 622 Egypt
- 624 Libya
- 625 Jordan
- 626 Iran
- 627 Kuwait
- 628 Saudi Arabia
- 629 United Arab Emirates
- 640 – 649 Finland
- 690 – 695 China
- 700 – 709 Norway
- 729 Israel
- 730 – 739 Sweden
- 740 Guatemala
- 741 El Salvador
- 742 Honduras
- 743 Nicaragua
- 744 Costa Rica
- 745 Panama
- 746 Dominican Republic
- 750 Mexico
- 754 – 755 Canada
- 759 Venezuela
- 760 – 769 Switzerland and Liechtenstein
- 770 – 771 Colombia
- 773 Uruguay
- 775 Peru
- 777 Bolivia
- 779 Argentina
- 780 Chile
- 784 Paraguay
- 785 Peru
- 786 Ecuador
- 789 – 790 Brazil
- 800 – 839 Italy, San Marino and Vatican City
- 840 – 849 Spain and Andorra
- 850 Cuba
- 858 Slovakia
- 859 Czech Republic
- 860 Serbia
- 865 Mongolia
- 867 North Korea
- 868 – 869 Turkey
- 870 – 879 Netherlands
- 880 South Korea
- 884 Cambodia
- 885 Thailand
- 888 Singapore
- 890 India
- 893 Vietnam
- 896 Pakistan
- 899 Indonesia
- 900 – 919 Austria
- 930 – 939 Australia
- 940 – 949 New Zealand
- 950 GS1 Global Office: Special applications
- 951 EPCglobal: Special applications
- 955 Malaysia
- 958 Macau
- 960 – 969 GS1 Global Office: GTIN-8 allocations
- 977 Serial publications (ISSN)
- 978 – 979 Bookland (ISBN) – 979 formerly used for sheet music
- 980 Refund receipts
- 981 – 984 GS1 coupon identification for common currency areas
- 990 – 999 Coupon identification