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Average download speed of mobile broadband (median), by country

Median mobile broadband download speed (Mbps) by country, based on billions of user-initiated speed tests compiled by Ookla Speedtest Intelligence (2024).

Source: Ookla (Speedtest Global Index / Speedtest Intelligence)•166 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average
61.4Mbps
Median: 48.3Mbps
Countries Covered
166
with available data
Highest
United Arab Emirates
201.0Mbps
Lowest
Suriname
6.5Mbps
Top 5 Countries
1United Arab Emirates201.0Mbps
2Singapore178.6Mbps
3Qatar170.8Mbps
4Monaco156.4Mbps
5Hong Kong151.2Mbps
By Region
Oceania100.9Mbps(2 countries)
Europe96.0Mbps(32 countries)
Asia84.3Mbps(27 countries)
North America65.2Mbps(4 countries)
South America57.8Mbps(7 countries)
Key Findings
  • •Mobile broadband performance differs by an order of magnitude across countries, reflecting infrastructure and 5G maturity gaps.
  • •High-performing mobile markets often combine dense 5G coverage, ample spectrum, and strong backhaul capacity.
  • •Lower speeds typically correlate with limited spectrum, congestion in urban cells, or constrained international/backhaul links.
  • •Median-based reporting provides a more robust ‘typical user’ signal than averages in skewed distributions.

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (6.5Mbps)High (201.0Mbps)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 61.4Mbps)

Oceania (2)
Europe (32)
Asia (27)
North America (4)
South America (7)
Other (85)
Africa (9)

About This Statistic

This statistic reports the median mobile broadband download speed (in Mbps) for each country, based on aggregated, user-initiated Speedtest measurements. Using the median (rather than the mean) reduces the influence of extreme outliers and better reflects the “typical” user experience.

Speeds vary widely across countries due to differences in spectrum availability, 4G/5G coverage, network investment, device mix, backhaul capacity, population density, and regulatory environments. The dataset is updated frequently; for a stable annual snapshot, this version uses a 2024 country-level reference.

Source note: Ookla publishes country rankings and methodology under Speedtest Global Index / Speedtest Intelligence. Country values may differ from regulator-reported KPI results because this is crowdsourced performance data from real devices and real networks.

Full Data

Rank ↑Country ↕Value ↕
1United Arab Emirates201.0Mbps
2Singapore178.6Mbps
3Qatar170.8Mbps
4Monaco156.4Mbps
5Hong Kong151.2Mbps
6South Korea145.9Mbps
7Finland145.3Mbps
8Iceland143.8Mbps
9Taiwan, Province of China142.4Mbps
10Bahrain140.6Mbps
11Norway137.5Mbps
12People's Republic of China131.9Mbps
13Maldives130.2Mbps
14Kuwait127.4Mbps
15Oman123.2Mbps
16Denmark121.7Mbps
17Luxembourg120.5Mbps
18Sweden119.4Mbps
19Switzerland119.0Mbps
20Israel116.0Mbps
21Japan115.6Mbps
22Saudi Arabia112.8Mbps
23Algeria112.3Mbps
24Netherlands112.0Mbps
25Estonia109.7Mbps
26Argentina109.4Mbps
27Australia104.8Mbps
28Faroe Islands104.6Mbps
29Germany101.4Mbps
30Ireland98.9Mbps
31Belgium98.7Mbps
32France97.5Mbps
33New Zealand97.1Mbps
34Czech Republic96.4Mbps
35Slovenia95.6Mbps
36Canada95.1Mbps
37Lithuania94.7Mbps
38Hungary94.2Mbps
39Spain93.8Mbps
40Cyprus92.9Mbps
41Mauritius92.3Mbps
42Slovakia91.0Mbps
43Italy90.7Mbps
44United States of America89.6Mbps
45Latvia89.4Mbps
46Aruba89.1Mbps
47Greece88.9Mbps
48Bosnia and Herzegovina88.6Mbps
49Country 53288.0Mbps
50Portugal87.3Mbps
51Malaysia86.0Mbps
52Poland84.6Mbps
53Croatia82.6Mbps
54United Kingdom81.5Mbps
55Fiji80.2Mbps
56Armenia79.3Mbps
57Montenegro78.8Mbps
58Romania76.9Mbps
59Albania74.5Mbps
60Serbia74.0Mbps
61Russian Federation70.4Mbps
62Chile63.4Mbps
63Seychelles63.0Mbps
64India62.7Mbps
65Botswana62.1Mbps
66Brunei Darussalam61.0Mbps
67Costa Rica59.8Mbps
68The Republic of North Macedonia58.7Mbps
69Afghanistan57.2Mbps
70Türkiye56.9Mbps
71Uruguay56.0Mbps
72Malta55.7Mbps
73Georgia53.8Mbps
74Brazil52.9Mbps
75Moldova, Republic of52.6Mbps
76Lebanon52.4Mbps
77Morocco52.1Mbps
78Austria51.7Mbps
79Thailand51.5Mbps
80Ukraine51.3Mbps
81Trinidad and Tobago50.7Mbps
82Vietnam49.6Mbps
83Uzbekistan48.4Mbps
84Kazakhstan48.1Mbps
85South Africa47.3Mbps
86Belarus46.8Mbps
87Tunisia46.2Mbps
88Paraguay45.8Mbps
89Colombia45.5Mbps
90Mexico45.2Mbps
91Nepal44.8Mbps
92Kyrgyzstan43.9Mbps
93Solomon Islands43.7Mbps
94New Caledonia43.6Mbps
95Cambodia41.9Mbps
96Jordan41.5Mbps
97Libya41.0Mbps
98Peru39.7Mbps
99Angola39.6Mbps
100Cayman Islands39.2Mbps
101Iraq39.0Mbps
102Bahamas38.2Mbps
103Ecuador37.7Mbps
104Islamic Republic of Iran37.4Mbps
105North Korea36.8Mbps
106Lao People's Democratic Republic35.7Mbps
107Philippines34.9Mbps
108Jamaica34.4Mbps
109Bolivia34.1Mbps
110Namibia33.9Mbps
111Belize33.5Mbps
112Panama33.2Mbps
113Mongolia32.8Mbps
114Venezuela32.4Mbps
115Sri Lanka31.6Mbps
116Guatemala30.8Mbps
117Bulgaria30.2Mbps
118Honduras30.1Mbps
119Madagascar29.6Mbps
120Indonesia28.9Mbps
121Republic of the Congo28.8Mbps
122Dominican Republic28.6Mbps
123Republic of The Gambia28.4Mbps
124Egypt28.1Mbps
125Kenya27.6Mbps
126Rwanda26.2Mbps
127Nicaragua25.7Mbps
128Myanmar25.3Mbps
129Cote d'Ivoire25.2Mbps
130Bangladesh24.9Mbps
131Zimbabwe24.6Mbps
132United Republic of Tanzania24.2Mbps
133Cape Verde24.1Mbps
134El Salvador22.9Mbps
135Ghana22.7Mbps
136Nigeria22.6Mbps
137Uganda22.5Mbps
138Burundi22.4Mbps
139Syrian Arab Republic22.3Mbps
140Cuba22.1Mbps
141Vanuatu22.0Mbps
142Togo22.0Mbps
143Zambia21.8Mbps
144Sudan21.6Mbps
145Senegal21.2Mbps
146Pakistan19.9Mbps
147Mali19.3Mbps
148Mozambique19.0Mbps
149Niger18.7Mbps
150Cameroon18.1Mbps
151Mauritania17.8Mbps
152Ethiopia17.5Mbps
153Djibouti17.1Mbps
154Democratic Republic of the Congo16.7Mbps
155Yemen15.6Mbps
156Guinea15.4Mbps
157Papua New Guinea14.7Mbps
158Sierra Leone14.5Mbps
159Chad14.3Mbps
160Malawi14.0Mbps
161Benin13.1Mbps
162Haiti12.6Mbps
163Liberia11.2Mbps
164South Sudan10.9Mbps
165Somalia10.3Mbps
166Suriname6.5Mbps
Showing 166 of 166 countries

Topics

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Data Source

This data comes from Ookla (Speedtest Global Index / Speedtest Intelligence) (2024).

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