Average connection speeds for Internet users across the world

[tysroby]

Some observations:

* South Korea, as is well known, is something of an Internet speed king, and that’s made abundantly clear in this chart. At an average connection speed of almost 17 Mbit/s it thoroughly outclasses the competition.

* China, although the largest country on the Internet, still lags behind when it comes to Internet connection speeds. Its average of 0.86 Mbit/s is far below the world average of 1.8 Mbit/s.

* And speaking of China, Hong Kong, technically a part of China but separated in most surveys for statistical purposes, is clearly far ahead of its mother country. With Hong Kong’s average connection speed of 8.6 Mbit/s, it’s second only to South Korea.

It’s also interesting that all three top positions are in Asia.

* Of the top 10 in this “speed list,” three are from Asia, and seven from Europe.

* Canada beats the United States, barely, with 4.7 Mbit/s versus 4.6 Mbit/s.

Worldwide averages

The average connection speed for Internet users worldwide, not just among these 50 countries, but all countries, is an average of 1.8 Mbit/s. As an average, this is actually pretty good, but as you’ve seen, there are plenty of extremes in either direction.

And here’s how the various connection speeds are distributed. Once again, this is not among these 50 countries, this is for the world seen as a whole (from Akamai’s perspective).

It’s quite encouraging that as many as 22% of the connections are 5 Mbit/s or faster, and even more that more than half of all connections are 2 Mbit/s or faster.

Connection speed distribution

What you see here below is how the connection speeds of each country are distributed, just as in the worldwide chart.

As this chart shows, the slowest connection types (less than 256 kbit/s) have almost been eradicated in many countries. However, in many developing nations these still make up a significant portion of the connections.

The country list is sorted by average connection speed.

Data sources: Akamai for connection speeds, Internet World Stats for Internet user numbers.

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[majithia23]

whoaaa.... south korea .... !

avg speeds of 16mbps is fast ... real fast ....

i wonder , hw must it feel to use this Autobahn ??

[implague]

what r those numbers in front of every country name( in Bracket)

[tysroby]

what r those numbers in front of every country name( in Bracket)

I have no idea, didn't even notice them! And now it keeps bugging me. If you ore anyone else finds that out, please let us know :)

[*dcs18]

what r those numbers in front of every country name( in Bracket)

I have no idea, didn't even notice them! And now it keeps bugging me. If you ore anyone else finds that out, please let us know :)

That's the ranking of that particular country in the world with the parameter of people in that county using the internet. :)

[DKT27]

That's a known thing. SK does have the fastest internet in the world.

But hey India is 4th in the most internet users. :o

[tysroby]

Thanks for clearing that up dcs18

[karachidude]

good info,nice of u to share op :)

[implague]

what r those numbers in front of every country name( in Bracket)

I have no idea, didn't even notice them! And now it keeps bugging me. If you ore anyone else finds that out, please let us know :)

That's the ranking of that particular country in the world with the parameter of people in that county using the internet. :)

i really wondered that swedish and danish people are far behind that other countries in using internet :fear:

[Tunerz]

LOL at Philippines.

[Thugsta]

Brazil's a shame