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Mapped: The Fastest (and Slowest) Internet Speeds in the World
Mapped: The World’s Fastest (and Slowest) Internet Speeds
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The answer depends on the device you’re using, and where in the world you’re located. Average internet speeds vary wildly from country to country.
Which countries have the fastest internet connection? Using data from the Cable.co.uk, this map ranks the fastest (and slowest) internet speeds worldwide by comparing the fixed broadband speeds of over 200 countries.
What Factors Affect Internet Speed?
Before diving in, it’s important to understand the key factors that impact a country’s internet speed. Generally speaking, internet speed depends on:
- Infrastructure or the type of cabling (copper or fiber-optic) that a country’s utilizing to support their internet service. Typically, the newer the infrastructure, the faster the connection.
- Proximity/connection to submarine cables is important, as these massive undersea fiber-optic cables transmit about 97% of the world’s communication data.
- The size of a country, since landmass affects how much it costs to upgrade infrastructure. The smaller the country, the cheaper it is to upgrade cabling.
- Investment makes a difference, or how much a country’s government prioritizes internet accessibility.
Of course, other factors may influence a country’s internet speed too, such as government regulation and intentional bandwidth throttling, which is the case in countries like Turkmenistan.
Ranked: Fixed Broadband Speeds
To measure fixed broadband speeds across the globe, Cable.co.uk used more than 1.1 billion speed tests, sourced from over 200 countries.
The region with the fastest connection is Jersey, which is one of the islands that make up the British Isles. It has an average download speed of 274.27 mbps—almost 9x the overall average.
Rank | Country | Mean download speed (Mbps) |
---|---|---|
1 | 🇯🇪 Jersey | 274.27 |
2 | 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein | 211.26 |
3 | 🇮🇸 Iceland | 191.83 |
4 | 🇦🇩 Andorra | 164.66 |
5 | 🇬🇮 Gibraltar | 151.34 |
6 | 🇲🇨 Monaco | 144.29 |
7 | 🇲🇴 Macao SAR | 128.56 |
8 | 🇱🇺 Luxembourg | 107.94 |
9 | 🇳🇱 Netherlands | 107.3 |
10 | 🇭🇺 Hungary | 104.07 |
11 | 🇸🇬 Singapore | 97.61 |
12 | 🇧🇲 Bermuda | 96.54 |
13 | 🇯🇵 Japan | 96.36 |
14 | 🇺🇸 United States | 92.42 |
15 | 🇭🇰 Hong Kong SAR | 91.04 |
16 | 🇪🇸 Spain | 89.59 |
17 | 🇸🇪 Sweden | 88.98 |
18 | 🇳🇴 Norway | 88.67 |
19 | 🇫🇷 France | 85.96 |
20 | 🇳🇿 New Zealand | 85.95 |
21 | 🇲🇹 Malta | 85.2 |
22 | 🇪🇪 Estonia | 84.72 |
23 | 🇦🇽 Aland Islands | 81.31 |
24 | 🇨🇦 Canada | 79.96 |
25 | 🇧🇪 Belgium | 78.46 |
26 | 🇻🇦 Vatican City | 73.49 |
27 | 🇰🇾 Cayman Islands | 71.47 |
28 | 🇦🇼 Aruba | 70.66 |
29 | 🇷🇴 Romania | 67.4 |
30 | 🇸🇮 Slovenia | 67.2 |
31 | 🇵🇱 Poland | 63.84 |
32 | 🇧🇬 Bulgaria | 63.41 |
33 | 🇱🇻 Latvia | 63.28 |
34 | 🇵🇹 Portugal | 63.02 |
35 | 🇰🇷 Republic of Korea | 61.72 |
36 | 🇩🇪 Germany | 60.55 |
37 | 🇱🇹 Republic of Lithuania | 56.17 |
38 | 🇧🇧 Barbados | 55.92 |
39 | 🇫🇮 Finland | 55.08 |
40 | 🇸🇰 Slovak Republic | 54.92 |
41 | 🇹🇭 Thailand | 53.95 |
42 | 🇮🇲 Isle of Man | 52.1 |
43 | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 51.48 |
44 | 🇮🇪 Ireland | 51.41 |
45 | 🇨🇭 Switzerland | 50.83 |
46 | 🇭🇷 Croatia | 49.77 |
47 | 🇩🇰 Denmark | 49.24 |
48 | 🇵🇲 Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 47.92 |
49 | 🇹🇼 Taiwan | 46.43 |
50 | 🇷🇪 Réunion | 43.62 |
51 | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | 42.83 |
52 | 🇬🇱 Greenland | 41.56 |
53 | 🇸🇲 San Marino | 40.55 |
54 | 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico | 40.52 |
55 | 🇦🇺 Australia | 40.5 |
56 | 🇲🇫 Saint Martin | 40.19 |
57 | 🇲🇪 Montenegro | 40.14 |
58 | 🇧🇸 Bahamas | 39.71 |
59 | 🇦🇹 Austria | 37.99 |
60 | 🇨🇿 Czechia | 37.23 |
61 | 🇮🇹 Italy | 36.69 |
62 | 🇷🇸 Serbia | 36.59 |
63 | 🇲🇩 Republic of Moldova | 36.47 |
64 | 🇹🇨 Turks and Caicos Islands | 36.09 |
65 | 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago | 35.81 |
66 | 🇷🇺 Russian Federation | 35.73 |
67 | 🇮🇱 Israel | 34.97 |
68 | 🇧🇷 Brazil | 33.34 |
69 | 🇳🇨 New Caledonia | 31.79 |
70 | 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina | 31.72 |
71 | 🇬🇬 Guernsey | 31.2 |
72 | 🇵🇦 Panama | 30.58 |
73 | 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates | 29.9 |
74 | 🇬🇷 Greece | 29.76 |
75 | 🇻🇮 Virgin Islands, U.S. | 29.34 |
76 | 🇨🇾 Cyprus | 28.3 |
77 | 🇺🇦 Ukraine | 25.26 |
78 | 🇶🇦 Qatar | 24.16 |
79 | 🇧🇿 Belize | 23.12 |
80 | 🇮🇳 India | 22.53 |
81 | 🇽🇰 Kosovo | 22.21 |
82 | 🇺🇾 Uruguay | 21.73 |
83 | 🇫🇴 Faroe Islands | 21.59 |
84 | 🇬🇵 Guadeloupe | 21.32 |
85 | 🇯🇲 Jamaica | 20.96 |
86 | 🇬🇺 Guam | 20.76 |
87 | 🇻🇳 Vietnam | 20.66 |
88 | 🇬🇩 Grenada | 20.49 |
89 | 🇨🇼 Curaçao | 20.18 |
90 | 🇿🇦 South Africa | 19.94 |
91 | 🇲🇶 Martinique | 19.88 |
92 | 🇧🇾 Belarus | 19.86 |
93 | 🇧🇶 Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba | 19.6 |
94 | 🇵🇾 Paraguay | 19.41 |
95 | 🇻🇬 Virgin Islands, British | 19.4 |
96 | 🇦🇱 Albania | 19.36 |
97 | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | 19.02 |
98 | 🇲🇽 Mexico | 18.83 |
99 | 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia | 18.1 |
100 | 🇰🇼 Kuwait | 18.06 |
101 | 🇦🇲 Armenia | 18.05 |
102 | 🇵🇭 Philippines | 16.84 |
103 | 🇴🇲 Oman | 16.73 |
104 | 🇧🇭 Bahrain | 16.37 |
105 | 🇲🇬 Madagascar | 16.28 |
106 | 🇧🇳 Brunei | 15.79 |
107 | 🇲🇰 North Macedonia | 15.38 |
108 | 🇯🇴 Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan | 15.25 |
109 | 🇱🇨 Saint Lucia | 15.02 |
110 | 🇲🇳 Mongolia | 14.94 |
111 | 🇻🇨 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 14.32 |
112 | 🇬🇪 Georgia | 13.83 |
113 | 🇨🇱 Chile | 13.76 |
114 | 🇲🇵 Northern Mariana Islands | 13.15 |
115 | 🇨🇴 Colombia | 13.13 |
116 | 🇰🇳 Saint Kitts and Nevis | 12.96 |
117 | 🇩🇲 Dominica | 12.41 |
118 | 🇧🇱 Saint Barthélemy | 12.25 |
119 | 🇭🇹 Haiti | 12.12 |
120 | 🇨🇬 Republic of the Congo | 12.07 |
121 | 🇸🇨 Seychelles | 12.04 |
122 | 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic | 11.87 |
123 | 🇦🇸 American Samoa | 11.76 |
124 | 🇹🇷 Turkey | 11.58 |
125 | 🇵🇪 Peru | 11.35 |
126 | 🇰🇪 Kenya | 11.27 |
127 | 🇬🇫 French Guiana | 10.99 |
128 | 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso | 10.73 |
129 | 🇲🇦 Morocco | 10.33 |
130 | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | 10.25 |
131 | 🇸🇻 El Salvador | 9.95 |
132 | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | 9.95 |
133 | 🇬🇹 Guatemala | 9.85 |
134 | 🇳🇮 Nicaragua | 9.75 |
135 | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | 9.58 |
136 | 🇨🇮 Cote D'Ivoire | 9.54 |
137 | 🇫🇯 Fiji | 9.4 |
138 | 🇬🇾 Guyana | 9.26 |
139 | 🇬🇭 Ghana | 9.23 |
140 | 🇦🇮 Anguilla | 9 |
141 | 🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda | 8.69 |
142 | 🇳🇬 Nigeria | 8.68 |
143 | 🇦🇷 Argentina | 8.68 |
144 | 🇹🇿 United Republic of Tanzania | 8.6 |
145 | 🇲🇺 Mauritius | 8.53 |
146 | 🇺🇬 Uganda | 8.52 |
147 | 🇰🇭 Cambodia | 8.49 |
148 | 🇱🇸 Lesotho | 8.46 |
149 | 🇨🇻 Cape Verde | 7.94 |
150 | 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe | 7.92 |
151 | 🇾🇹 Mayotte | 7.7 |
152 | 🇵🇫 French Polynesia | 7.67 |
153 | 🇹🇳 Tunisia | 7.46 |
154 | 🇲🇻 Maldives | 7.45 |
155 | 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan | 7.44 |
156 | 🇸🇷 Suriname | 7.44 |
157 | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | 7.36 |
158 | 🇲🇿 Mozambique | 7.17 |
159 | 🇭🇳 Honduras | 7.17 |
160 | 🇮🇷 Iran | 7.05 |
161 | 🇸🇳 Senegal | 7.02 |
162 | 🇪🇬 Egypt | 6.94 |
163 | 🇳🇵 Nepal | 6.84 |
164 | 🇼🇸 Samoa | 6.8 |
165 | 🇲🇭 Marshall Islands | 6.71 |
166 | 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan | 6.64 |
167 | 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan | 6.63 |
168 | 🇧🇹 Bhutan | 6.44 |
169 | 🇷🇼 Rwanda | 6.29 |
170 | 🇸🇽 Sint Maarten | 6.15 |
171 | 🇱🇦 Lao People's Democratic Republic | 5.91 |
172 | 🇦🇴 Angola | 5.88 |
173 | 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan | 5.83 |
174 | 🇱🇧 Lebanon | 5.67 |
175 | 🇮🇶 Iraq | 5.58 |
176 | 🇿🇲 Zambia | 5.48 |
177 | 🇸🇧 Solomon Islands | 5.33 |
178 | 🇱🇷 Liberia | 5.23 |
179 | 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea | 5.1 |
180 | 🇬🇦 Gabon | 4.99 |
181 | 🇲🇼 Malawi | 4.96 |
182 | 🇵🇼 Palau | 4.84 |
183 | 🇲🇱 Mali | 4.72 |
184 | 🇲🇲 Myanmar | 4.58 |
185 | 🇳🇦 Namibia | 4.42 |
186 | 🇰🇲 Comoros | 3.99 |
187 | 🇸🇿 Eswatini | 3.73 |
188 | 🇱🇾 Libya | 3.73 |
189 | 🇧🇼 Botswana | 3.65 |
190 | 🇵🇸 Palestine | 3.65 |
191 | 🇨🇩 DR Congo | 3.63 |
192 | 🇹🇬 Togo | 3.54 |
193 | 🇳🇪 Niger | 3.23 |
194 | 🇩🇿 Algeria | 3.08 |
195 | 🇨🇲 Cameroon | 3.04 |
196 | 🇨🇺 Cuba | 2.92 |
197 | 🇧🇩 Bangladesh | 2.9 |
198 | 🇻🇺 Vanuatu | 2.9 |
199 | 🇵🇰 Pakistan | 2.82 |
200 | 🇧🇮 Burundi | 2.82 |
201 | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | 2.62 |
202 | 🇧🇯 Benin | 2.59 |
203 | 🇲🇷 Mauritania | 2.54 |
204 | 🇸🇹 São Tomé and Príncipe | 2.43 |
205 | 🇪🇷 Eritrea | 2.41 |
206 | 🇬🇳 Guinea | 2.39 |
207 | 🇹🇩 Chad | 2.39 |
208 | 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone | 2.19 |
209 | 🇨🇳 China | 2.06 |
210 | 🇬🇲 Gambia | 2.04 |
211 | 🇹🇯 Tajikistan | 1.82 |
212 | 🇸🇩 Sudan | 1.8 |
213 | 🇸🇾 Syrian Arab Republic | 1.67 |
214 | 🇫🇲 Federated States of Micronesia | 1.63 |
215 | 🇸🇴 Somalia | 1.59 |
216 | 🇩🇯 Djibouti | 1.46 |
217 | 🇦🇫 Afghanistan | 1.41 |
218 | 🇸🇸 South Sudan | 1.4 |
219 | 🇹🇱 Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste | 1.33 |
220 | 🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea | 1.3 |
221 | 🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau | 1.24 |
222 | 🇪🇹 Ethiopia | 1.2 |
223 | 🇾🇪 Yemen | 0.68 |
224 | 🇹🇲 Turkmenistan | 0.5 |
Infrastructure is a major reason behind Jersey’s speedy internet. It’s the first jurisdiction in the world to upgrade its entire system to pure fibre (FTTP). But the region’s size also plays a factor, since its landmass and population size are both relatively small compared to the rest of the world.
Second on the list is another small region, Liechtenstein, with an average download speed of 211.26 mbps. Liechtenstein is one of the richest countries in the world per capita, and its government has invested heavily in its telecommunications infrastructure, aiming to be fully fibre optic by 2022.
Like Jersey, Liechtenstein also has a relatively small population. At the time of this article’s publication, the region is home to approximately 38,000 people. In fact, it’s worth noting that of the top ten regions, only two have populations over one million—the Netherlands, and Hungary.
At the opposite end of the spectrum, Turkmenistan has the slowest fixed broadband, with a speed of 0.5 mbps. As mentioned above, this is largely because of government regulation and intervention.
The Future is 5G
Innovation and new technologies are changing the digital landscape, and things like 5G networks are becoming more mainstream across the globe.
Because of the rapidly changing nature of this industry, the data behind this ranking is updated monthly to provide the latest look at internet speeds across the globe.
This means the bar is gradually raising when it comes to internet speed, as faster, stronger internet connections become the norm. And countries that aren’t equipped to handle these souped-up networks will lag behind even further.
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The World’s Biggest Cloud Computing Service Providers
Cloud computing service providers generated $270 billion in revenues last year, concentrated among a few giants.
The World’s Biggest Cloud Computing Service Providers
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Today, the three largest cloud computing service providers command 66% of the global market.
Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have generated billions in revenues through their cloud infrastructure that provide the computing power companies need to store data. What’s more, most AI models are run on the cloud, creating a surge in computing demand for cloud providers.
The above graphic shows the largest cloud providers globally, based on data from Synergy Research Group.
Breaking Down the Cloud Market
Here are the world’s top cloud computing service providers based on enterprise revenues as of the fourth quarter of 2023:
Provider | Country | Market Share Q4 2023 |
---|---|---|
Amazon Web Services | 🇺🇸 U.S. | 31% |
Microsoft Azure | 🇺🇸 U.S. | 24% |
Google Cloud | 🇺🇸 U.S. | 11% |
Alibaba Cloud | 🇨🇳 China | 4% |
Salesforce | 🇺🇸 U.S. | 3% |
IBM Cloud | 🇺🇸 U.S. | 2% |
Oracle | 🇺🇸 U.S. | 2% |
Tencent Cloud | 🇨🇳 China | 2% |
Other | 🌐 Other | 21% |
With 31% of the global market share, Amazon’s cloud division posted $24.2 billion in revenues over the quarter.
AWS is a major cash engine for the company, but growth slowed over 2023 as enterprises and startups cut back on tech spending. Annual sales growth compared to the same quarter last year grew by 13%—far below competitors Microsoft and Google, whose cloud divisions grew by 30% and 26%, respectively.
As we can see, U.S. firms make up the lion’s share of the market, while China’s Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud together comprise 5% of the global share.
The AI Boom and the Cloud
Given that a significant chunk of AI models are run on the cloud, the industry may be positioned to see greater demand as momentum accelerates.
In fact, newer AI systems are as much as 10 to 100 times larger than older models. In line with this, major cloud providers are seeing high demand for cloud services to allow companies across financial to manufacturing sectors to run large language models on their platforms.
Today, 98% of companies globally rely on the cloud for at least one part of their business applications, which may present a market opportunity for the industry as advancements in AI continue to grow.
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