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Broadband subscribers (per 1,000 people) by country

Please cite the International Telecommunication Union for third-party use of these data. Broadband subscribers are the total number of broadband subscribers with a digital subscriber line, cable modem, or other high-speed technologies. Reporting countries may have different definitions of broadband, so data are...

Countries reporting
53
Highest
104.65 per 1,000 people
Seychelles
Lowest
0 per 1,000 people
Guinea-Bissau
Median
0.7799 per 1,000 people
Years covered
17
1995–2011
Data points
631

What the numbers show

Broadband subscribers (per 1,000 people) is currently reported for 53 countries. The highest value is 104.65 per 1,000 people in Seychelles; the lowest is 0 per 1,000 people in Guinea-Bissau.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.7799 per 1,000 people, and the mean is 8.58 per 1,000 people.

Broadband subscribers: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Seychelles 104.65 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
2 Mauritius 90.82 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
3 Tunisia 51 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
4 Cape Verde 43.37 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
5 Algeria 27.79 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
6 Egypt 22.06 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
7 Morocco 18.25 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
8 South Africa 17.93 per 1,000 people 2011 up 30,488.0% volatile
9 Djibouti 12.48 per 1,000 people 2011 up 187,010.0% volatile
10 Libya 10.9 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
11 Namibia 7.96 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
12 Botswana 7.73 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
13 Senegal 7.26 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
14 Sao Tome and Principe 4.2 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
15 Gabon 2.93 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
16 Zimbabwe 2.67 per 1,000 people 2011 up 4,247.8% volatile
17 Eswatini 2.6 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
18 Ghana 2.51 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
19 Cote d'Ivoire 2.46 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
20 Mauritania 1.73 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
21 Equatorial Guinea 1.69 per 1,000 people 2010 — volatile
22 Nigeria 1.33 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
23 Angola 1.27 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
24 Uganda 1.03 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
25 Kenya 1.02 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
26 Burkina Faso 0.8288 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
27 Togo 0.7799 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
28 Mozambique 0.6799 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
29 Malawi 0.6372 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
30 Lesotho 0.6103 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
31 Zambia 0.5659 per 1,000 people 2011 up 18,974.8% volatile
32 Sudan 0.5079 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
33 Benin 0.4282 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
34 Rwanda 0.3336 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
35 Madagascar 0.3215 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
36 Gambia 0.246 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
37 Democratic Republic of Congo 0.2244 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
38 Comoros 0.199 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
39 Mali 0.1494 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
40 Niger 0.1117 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
41 Tanzania 0.0757 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
42 Congo 0.0725 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
43 Guinea 0.0587 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
44 Cameroon 0.0549 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
45 Ethiopia 0.0542 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
46 Burundi 0.042 per 1,000 people 2010 — volatile
47 Eritrea 0.026 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
48 Liberia 0.0153 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
49 Chad 0.0145 per 1,000 people 2011 — volatile
50 Central African Republic 0 per 1,000 people 2011 — flat
50 Somalia 0 per 1,000 people 2008 — flat
50 Sierra Leone 0 per 1,000 people 2007 — flat
50 Guinea-Bissau 0 per 1,000 people 2008 — flat

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Broadband subscribers (per 1,000 people)
Unit
per 1,000 people
Source
International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication Development Report and database, and World Bank estimates
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
59 places, 631 data points, 1995–2011
Last refreshed

Please cite the International Telecommunication Union for third-party use of these data. Broadband subscribers are the total number of broadband subscribers with a digital subscriber line, cable modem, or other high-speed technologies. Reporting countries may have different definitions of broadband, so data are not strictly comparable across countries.