Fixed broadband subscriptions

Wired high-speed connections per 100 people.

measured by: World Bank
originally from: International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators
years covered: 1998–2024
subject: Digital

Higher is generally taken as better.

How this is measured

Subscriptions to high-speed access over cable, fibre or DSL, per 100 people. Counted per subscription, not per person reached, so a country where one household line serves six people looks worse than one where each adult holds a contract. In much of the world mobile data replaced this step entirely, which is why the figure is low in places where internet use is not. Infrastructure rather than liberty, so it is not in the digital freedom index.

Ranked for 2024

134 countries and territories have a figure for 2024. This is the most recent year the series covers well; the viewer holds every year from 1998.

#	Country	Region	Broadband
1	France	Europe	48.9
2	South Korea	Asia-Pacific	47.8
3	China	Asia-Pacific	47.2
4	Switzerland	Europe	47.0
5	Germany	Europe	45.6
6	Portugal	Europe	45.2
7	Norway	Europe	45.2
8	Greece	Europe	44.7
9	Belgium	Europe	44.2
10	Saudi Arabia	Middle East & North Africa	44.1
11	Denmark	Europe	43.4
12	Netherlands	Europe	43.0
13	Canada	Americas	42.5
14	United Kingdom	Europe	42.2
15	United Arab Emirates	Middle East & North Africa	40.8
16	Sweden	Europe	40.6
17	Luxembourg	Europe	40.3
18	Spain	Europe	39.2
19	Czechia	Europe	38.9
20	United States	Americas	38.9
21	New Zealand	Asia-Pacific	38.0
22	Cyprus	Europe	37.6
23	Hungary	Europe	37.5
24	Iceland	Europe	37.5
25	Australia	Asia-Pacific	36.5
26	Finland	Europe	36.5
27	Belarus	Eurasia	36.3
28	Romania	Europe	35.8
29	Estonia	Europe	35.4
30	Uzbekistan	Eurasia	34.7
31	Slovenia	Europe	34.2
32	Slovakia	Europe	33.8
33	Serbia	Europe	33.4
34	Uruguay	Americas	33.0
35	Montenegro	Europe	32.3
36	Ireland	Europe	32.3
37	Italy	Europe	31.8
38	Georgia	Eurasia	30.4
39	Austria	Europe	30.1
40	North Macedonia	Europe	29.9
41	Moldova	Eurasia	29.6
42	Croatia	Europe	29.6
43	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Europe	29.4
44	Israel	Middle East & North Africa	29.2
45	Puerto Rico	Americas	28.0
46	Lithuania	Europe	27.8
47	Russia	Eurasia	27.1
48	Trinidad and Tobago	Americas	27.0
49	Argentina	Americas	26.1
50	Latvia	Europe	25.8
51	Poland	Europe	25.4
52	Bahamas	Americas	25.3
53	Albania	Europe	24.9
54	Brazil	Americas	24.1
55	Chile	Americas	23.7
56	Vietnam	Asia-Pacific	23.7
57	Turkey	Eurasia	23.4
58	Costa Rica	Americas	23.3
59	Azerbaijan	Eurasia	21.8
60	Mexico	Americas	21.7
61	Ukraine	Eurasia	21.7
62	Brunei	Asia-Pacific	21.2
63	Armenia	Eurasia	20.3
64	Suriname	Americas	18.8
65	Iraq	Middle East & North Africa	17.6
66	Ecuador	Americas	17.2
67	Colombia	Americas	17.2
68	Jamaica	Americas	16.0
69	Mongolia	Asia-Pacific	15.8
70	Kazakhstan	Eurasia	15.3
71	Tunisia	Middle East & North Africa	15.0
72	Thailand	Asia-Pacific	14.9
73	Malaysia	Asia-Pacific	13.5
74	Algeria	Middle East & North Africa	13.3
75	Venezuela	Americas	12.9
76	El Salvador	Americas	12.5
77	Bolivia	Americas	12.1
78	Iran	Middle East & North Africa	12.1
79	Qatar	Middle East & North Africa	11.8
80	Egypt	Middle East & North Africa	11.7
81	Peru	Americas	11.7
82	Dominican Republic	Americas	11.2
83	Oman	Middle East & North Africa	11.1
84	Nepal	Asia-Pacific	10.1
85	Sri Lanka	Asia-Pacific	8.5
86	Palestine	Middle East & North Africa	8.2
87	Bangladesh	Asia-Pacific	8.1
88	Kyrgyzstan	Eurasia	7.8
89	Botswana	Sub-Saharan Africa	7.4
90	Morocco	Middle East & North Africa	7.3
91	Philippines	Asia-Pacific	7.1
92	Jordan	Middle East & North Africa	7.0
93	Nicaragua	Americas	5.8
94	South Africa	Sub-Saharan Africa	5.3
95	Guatemala	Americas	5.3
96	Indonesia	Asia-Pacific	4.9
97	Gabon	Sub-Saharan Africa	4.7
98	Honduras	Americas	4.6
99	Cambodia	Asia-Pacific	4.1
100	Senegal	Sub-Saharan Africa	4.0
101	India	Asia-Pacific	3.2
102	Cuba	Americas	3.1
103	Kenya	Sub-Saharan Africa	3.0
104	Bhutan	Asia-Pacific	2.9
105	Myanmar	Asia-Pacific	2.9
106	Namibia	Sub-Saharan Africa	2.8
107	Eswatini	Sub-Saharan Africa	2.5
108	Zimbabwe	Sub-Saharan Africa	1.9
109	Fiji	Asia-Pacific	1.8
110	Côte d'Ivoire	Sub-Saharan Africa	1.6
111	Pakistan	Asia-Pacific	1.5
112	Togo	Sub-Saharan Africa	1.4
113	Vanuatu	Asia-Pacific	1.2
114	Mauritania	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.9
115	Burkina Faso	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.9
116	Zambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.8
117	Ghana	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.7
118	Rwanda	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.6
119	Ethiopia	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.6
120	Gambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.5
121	Guinea-Bissau	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.4
122	Lesotho	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.4
123	Angola	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.4
124	Benin	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.3
125	Tanzania	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.2
126	Papua New Guinea	Asia-Pacific	0.2
127	Uganda	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.2
128	Mozambique	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.1
129	Niger	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.1
130	Malawi	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.1
131	Nigeria	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.1
132	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.0
133	Timor-Leste	Asia-Pacific	0.0
134	Chad	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.0

Data by year

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Source and licence

World Bank — World Development Indicators

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