Fixed broadband subscriptions (per 100 people) - Country Ranking

Definition: Fixed broadband subscriptions refers to fixed subscriptions to high-speed access to the public Internet (a TCP/IP connection), at downstream speeds equal to, or greater than, 256 kbit/s. This includes cable modem, DSL, fiber-to-the-home/building, other fixed (wired)-broadband subscriptions, satellite broadband and terrestrial fixed wireless broadband. This total is measured irrespective of the method of payment. It excludes subscriptions that have access to data communications (including the Internet) via mobile-cellular networks. It should include fixed WiMAX and any other fixed wireless technologies. It includes both residential subscriptions and subscriptions for organizations.

Source: International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database.

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Rank Country Value Year
1 St. Kitts and Nevis 56.39 2020
2 Monaco 53.20 2020
3 Cayman Islands 48.69 2020
4 Malta 48.33 2020
5 Andorra 47.89 2020
6 Liechtenstein 47.34 2020
7 France 46.92 2020
8 Switzerland 46.54 2020
9 Denmark 44.72 2020
10 Barbados 44.54 2020
11 Norway 44.04 2020
12 Netherlands 43.92 2020
13 Korea 43.55 2020
14 Germany 43.22 2020
15 Canada 41.93 2020
16 Iceland 41.56 2020
17 Sweden 41.38 2020
18 Belgium 40.85 2020
19 Greece 40.84 2020
20 Portugal 40.81 2020
21 United Kingdom 40.26 2020
22 Hong Kong SAR, China 38.49 2020
23 Luxembourg 37.57 2020
24 Cyprus 37.40 2020
25 United States 36.61 2020
26 New Zealand 36.60 2020
27 Czech Republic 35.91 2020
28 Australia 35.68 2020
29 Seychelles 35.55 2020
30 Japan 34.79 2020
31 Spain 34.62 2020
32 Belarus 34.45 2020
33 Hungary 33.80 2020
34 China 33.60 2020
35 Finland 33.32 2020
36 United Arab Emirates 32.81 2020
37 San Marino 32.42 2020
38 Macao SAR, China 32.03 2020
39 Slovenia 31.34 2020
40 Estonia 31.33 2020
41 Slovak Republic 31.17 2020
42 Ireland 30.71 2020
43 Uruguay 30.62 2020
44 Bulgaria 30.44 2020
45 Israel 30.06 2020
46 Italy 29.98 2020
47 Romania 29.55 2020
48 Montenegro 29.32 2020
49 Lithuania 29.27 2020
50 Austria 28.93 2020
51 Grenada 28.44 2020
52 Greenland 27.57 2020
53 Trinidad and Tobago 26.92 2020
54 Latvia 26.01 2020
55 Singapore 25.81 2020
56 Mauritius 25.41 2020
57 Serbia 25.18 2020
58 Croatia 25.11 2020
59 Georgia 24.37 2020
60 Bosnia and Herzegovina 23.48 2020
61 Puerto Rico 23.46 2020
62 Russia 23.23 2020
63 North Macedonia 22.83 2020
64 Saudi Arabia 22.66 2020
65 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 22.29 2020
66 Dominica 22.23 2020
67 Poland 22.11 2020
68 Argentina 21.18 2020
69 The Bahamas 21.11 2020
70 Turkey 19.84 2020
71 Chile 19.69 2020
72 Azerbaijan 19.68 2020
73 Costa Rica 19.49 2020
74 New Caledonia 19.26 2020
75 Ukraine 18.62 2020
76 St. Lucia 17.97 2020
77 Moldova 17.82 2020
78 Albania 17.68 2020
79 Vietnam 17.16 2020
80 Brazil 17.10 2020
81 Mexico 17.01 2020
82 Thailand 16.44 2020
83 Brunei 16.25 2020
84 Suriname 15.73 2020
85 Iraq 15.55 2020
86 Colombia 15.26 2020
87 Armenia 14.52 2020
88 Uzbekistan 14.40 2020
89 Kazakhstan 13.96 2020
90 Ecuador 13.44 2020
91 Panama 13.03 2020
92 Jamaica 13.02 2020
93 Guyana 12.08 2020
94 Iran 11.39 2020
95 Tunisia 11.29 2020
96 Botswana 11.04 2020
97 Oman 10.85 2020
98 Malaysia 10.38 2020
99 Qatar 10.28 2020
100 Dominican Republic 9.51 2020
101 Nauru 9.50 2010
102 Mongolia 9.37 2020
103 Peru 9.23 2020
104 Egypt 9.14 2020
105 Belize 9.05 2020
106 El Salvador 9.03 2020
107 Venezuela 9.01 2020
108 Syrian Arab Republic 8.85 2020
109 Bahrain 8.75 2020
110 Algeria 8.64 2020
111 Sri Lanka 8.32 2020
112 Antigua and Barbuda 8.17 2020
113 Bolivia 7.98 2020
114 Paraguay 7.88 2020
115 Philippines 7.24 2020
116 Palau 6.93 2015
117 Lebanon 6.33 2020
118 Jordan 6.18 2020
119 Bangladesh 6.10 2020
120 Morocco 5.70 2020
121 Libya 4.83 2020
122 Tonga 4.73 2020
123 Cabo Verde 4.47 2020
124 Kyrgyz Republic 4.43 2020
125 Nicaragua 4.38 2020
126 Nepal 4.36 2020
127 Indonesia 4.29 2020
128 Honduras 4.01 2020
129 Tuvalu 3.96 2017
130 Guatemala 3.42 2020
131 Namibia 2.80 2020
132 Cameroon 2.72 2020
133 Fiji 2.57 2020
134 Djibouti 2.54 2020
135 South Africa 2.20 2020
136 Cuba 2.05 2020
137 Gabon 2.00 2020
138 Tanzania 1.90 2020
139 Lao PDR 1.76 2020
140 Kuwait 1.73 2020
141 India 1.66 2020
142 Cambodia 1.40 2020
143 Zimbabwe 1.37 2020
144 Yemen 1.31 2020
145 Myanmar 1.27 2020
146 Kenya 1.25 2020
147 Mali 1.20 2020
148 São Tomé and Principe 1.15 2020
149 Pakistan 1.14 2020
150 Eswatini 1.03 2020
151 Côte d'Ivoire 0.99 2020
152 Senegal 0.92 2020
153 Vanuatu 0.91 2020
154 Samoa 0.85 2020
155 Somalia 0.75 2020
156 Angola 0.70 2020
157 Togo 0.64 2020
158 Zambia 0.45 2020
159 Bhutan 0.41 2020
160 Mauritania 0.40 2020
161 Haiti 0.27 2020
162 Liberia 0.26 2020
163 Ghana 0.25 2020
164 Benin 0.25 2020
165 Lesotho 0.24 2020
166 Papua New Guinea 0.23 2020
167 Mozambique 0.22 2020
168 The Gambia 0.21 2020
169 Ethiopia 0.18 2020
170 Turkmenistan 0.17 2020
171 Kiribati 0.15 2020
172 Solomon Islands 0.15 2020
173 Eritrea 0.14 2020
174 Rwanda 0.14 2020
175 Uganda 0.13 2020
176 Comoros 0.12 2020
177 Guinea-Bissau 0.12 2020
178 Madagascar 0.12 2020
179 Equatorial Guinea 0.07 2020
180 Afghanistan 0.07 2020
181 Burkina Faso 0.07 2020
182 Sudan 0.07 2020
183 Malawi 0.06 2020
184 Tajikistan 0.06 2020
185 Niger 0.05 2020
186 Burundi 0.04 2020
187 Dem. Rep. Congo 0.03 2020
188 Nigeria 0.03 2020
189 Congo 0.02 2020
190 Central African Republic 0.01 2019
191 Guinea 0.01 2020
192 Timor-Leste 0.01 2020
193 Chad 0.00 2020

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Development Relevance: The quality of an economy's infrastructure, including power and communications, is an important element in investment decisions for both domestic and foreign investors. Government effort alone is not enough to meet the need for investments in modern infrastructure; public-private partnerships, especially those involving local providers and financiers, are critical for lowering costs and delivering value for money. In telecommunications, competition in the marketplace, along with sound regulation, is lowering costs, improving quality, and easing access to services around the globe. Comparable statistics on access, use, quality, and affordability of ICT are needed to formulate growth-enabling policies for the sector and to monitor and evaluate the sector's impact on development. Although basic access data are available for many countries, in most developing countries little is known about who uses ICT; what they are used for (school, work, business, research, government); and how they affect people and businesses. The global Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development is helping to set standards, harmonize information and communications technology statistics, and build statistical capacity in developing countries. However, despite significant improvements in the developing world, the gap between the ICT haves and have-nots remains. There are several economic gains associated with broadband. For example, with DSL, users can use a single standard phone line for both voice and data services. This enables them to surf the Internet and call a friend at the same time - all using the same phone line. Broadband also enhances many Internet applications such as new e-government services like electronic tax filing, online health care services, e-learning and increased levels of electronic commerce. Access to telecommunication services rose on an unprecedented scale over the past two decades. This growth was driven primarily by wireless technologies and liberalization of telecommunications markets, which have enabled faster and less costly network rollout. Mobile communications have a particularly important impact in rural areas. The mobility, ease of use, flexible deployment, and relatively low and declining rollout costs of wireless technologies enable them to reach rural populations with low levels of income and literacy. The next billion mobile subscribers will consist mainly of the rural poor. Access is the key to delivering telecommunications services to people. If the service is not affordable to most people, goals of universal usage will not be met. Over the past decade new financing and technology, along with privatization and market liberalization, have spurred dramatic growth in telecommunications in many countries. With the rapid development of mobile telephony and the global expansion of the Internet, information and communication technologies are increasingly recognized as essential tools of development, contributing to global integration and enhancing public sector effectiveness, efficiency, and transparency.

Limitations and Exceptions: Data are collected by national statistics offices through household surveys. Because survey questions and definitions differ, the estimates may not be strictly comparable across countries. Fixed broadband Internet includes cable modem, DSL, fibre and other fixed broadband technology (such as satellite broadband Internet, Ethernet LANs, fixed-wireless access, Wireless Local Area Network, WiMAX etc.). Subscribers with access to data communications (including the Internet) via mobile cellular networks are excluded. Advertised and real speeds can differ substantially. In some countries, regulatory authorities monitor the speed and quality of broadband services and oblige operators to provide accurate quality-of-service information to end users. Regional and global totals are calculated as unweighted sums of the country values. Regional and global penetration rates (per 100 inhabitants) are weighted averages of the country values weighted by the population of the countries/regions. Discrepancies between global and national figures may arise when countries use a different definition than the one used by ITU. Discrepancies may also arise in cases where the end of a fiscal year differs from that used by ITU, which is end of December of every year. A number of countries have fiscal years that end in March or June of every year.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Data refer to subscriptions to high-speed access to the public Internet (a TCP/IP connection), at downstream speeds equal to, or greater than, 256 kbit/s. This includes cable modem, DSL, fibre-to-the-home/building and other fixed (wired)-broadband subscriptions. This total is measured irrespective of the method of payment. It excludes subscriptions that have access to data communications (including the Internet) via mobile-cellular networks. It excludes technologies listed under the wireless-broadband category. Fixed broadband Internet subscribers per 100 people is obtained by dividing the number of fixed broadband Internet subscribers by the population and then multiplying by 100. For additional/latest information on sources and country notes, please also refer to: https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Pages/stat/default.aspx

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Please cite the International Telecommunication Union for third-party use of these data.