List of countries by number of broadband Internet subscriptions

This is a list of countries by number of broadband Internet subscriptions.

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Countries by number of fixed broadband subscriptions

The following is a list of countries by fixed (wired) broadband Internet subscriptions and penetration rate, compiled by the International Telecommunication Union for the year 2010. It refers to subscriptions to high-speed access to the public Internet (a TCP/IP connection), at downstream speeds equal to, or greater than, 256 kbit/s. This can include for example cable modem, DSL, fibre-to-the-home/building and other fixed (wired) broadband subscriptions. This total is measured irrespective of the method of payment. It excludes subscriptions that have access to data communications (including the Internet) via mobile cellular networks.[1]

Rank Country Fixed broadband
subscriptions[2]		 Per 100
inhabitants[2]
1  China 126,337,000 9.42
2  United States 81,744,000 26.34
3  Japan 34,055,343 26.91
4  Germany 26,000,000 31.59
5  France 21,300,000 33.92
6  United Kingdom 19,468,000 31.38
7  Korea, South 17,649,538 36.63
8  Russia 15,700,000 10.98
9  Brazil 14,086,729 7.23
10  Italy 13,400,000 22.13
11  India 12,980,000 1.06
12  Mexico 11,325,022 9.98
13  Spain 10,579,147 22.96
14  Canada 10,138,741 29.81
15  Turkey 7,095,850 9.75
16  Netherlands 6,308,000 37.97
17  Taiwan 5,265,026 22.68
18  Australia 5,165,000 23.19
19  Poland 5,044,000 13.18
20  Argentina 3,862,354 9.56
21  Ukraine 3,661,180 8.06
22  Viet Nam 3,631,396 4.13
23  Belgium 3,373,143 31.49
24  Romania 3,000,000 13.96
25  Sweden 2,963,000 31.59
26  Switzerland 2,925,000 38.16
27  Thailand 2,672,573 3.87
28  Colombia 2,621,764 5.66
29  Greece 2,252,653 19.83
—  Hong Kong 2,126,962 30.16
30  Malaysia 2,078,500 7.32
31  Portugal 2,075,342 19.44
32  Denmark 2,074,739 37.38
33  Austria 2,002,000 23.85
34  Hungary 1,956,218 19.59
35  Indonesia 1,900,300 0.79
36  Israel 1,864,900 25.14
37  Chile 1,788,490 10.45
38  Philippines 1,722,400 1.85
39  Norway 1,689,469 34.60
40  Belarus 1,665,889 17.36
41  Finland 1,559,400 29.07
42  Venezuela 1,556,485 5.37
43  Czech Republic 1,537,899 14.66
44  Saudi Arabia 1,496,607 5.45
45  Egypt 1,476,546 1.82
46  Kazakhstan 1,426,800 8.90
47  Singapore 1,257,400 24.72
48  Bulgaria 1,101,634 14.70
49  New Zealand 1,089,000 24.93
50  Ireland 1,019,964 22.82
51  Peru 911,640 3.14
52  Algeria 900,000 2.54
53  Slovakia 876,953 16.06
54  Croatia 803,823 18.25
55  United Arab Emirates 786,818 10.47
56  South Africa 743,000 1.48
57  Lithuania 684,057 20.58
58  Serbia 652,203 8.50
—  Puerto Rico 551,988 14.72
59  Pakistan 531,787 0.31
60  Azerbaijan 500,000 5.44
61  Iran 500,000 0.68
62  Morocco 498,682 1.56
63  Slovenia 495,045 24.39
64  Tunisia 481,810 4.60
65  Latvia 434,876 19.31
66  Bosnia and Herzegovina 390,902 10.40
67  Uruguay 382,948 11.37
68  Dominican Republic 361,112 3.64
69  Estonia 326,453 24.34
70  Costa Rica 288,236 6.19
71  Panama 275,639 7.84
72  Moldova 269,067 7.53
73  Guatemala 259,000 1.80
74  Macedonia, Republic of 256,943 12.47
75  Georgia 221,712 5.09
76  Sri Lanka 213,800 1.02
77  Lebanon 200,000 4.73
78  Ecuador 197,259 1.36
79  Jordan 196,900 3.18
80  Cyprus 194,455 17.62
81  El Salvador 175,274 2.83
82  Luxembourg 166,600 32.83
83  Sudan 164,500 0.38
84  Qatar 161,306 9.17
85  Bahrain 154,047 12.21
86  Trinidad and Tobago 145,028 10.81
—  Macao 131,229 24.14
87  Jamaica 116,685 4.26
88  Malta 114,720 27.54
89  Nepal 113,485 0.38
90  Iceland 110,912 34.65
91  Albania 110,000 3.43
92  Nigeria 99,108 0.06
93  Bolivia 95,937 0.97
94  Uzbekistan 89,100 0.32
95  Armenia 83,129 2.69
96  Mauritius 81,800 6.30
97  Yemen 79,245 0.33
98  Senegal 78,647 0.63
99  Honduras 76,000 1.00
100  Libya 72,800 1.15
101  Syria 67,235 0.33
102  Mongolia 63,673 2.31
103  Bangladesh 60,000 0.04
104  Barbados 56,190 20.56
105  Oman 52,630 1.89
106  Montenegro 52,400 8.30
107  Ghana 50,082 0.21
108  Nicaragua 47,600 0.82
109  Kuwait 46,000 1.68
—  Bermuda 40,100 61.75
110  Paraguay 39,165 0.61
—  New Caledonia 38,196 15.23
111  Cambodia 35,666 0.25
112  Zimbabwe 33,000 0.26
—  French Polynesia 32,247 11.91
113  Dominica 31,944 47.14
114  Benin 26,069 0.29
115  Andorra 24,502 28.87
116  Bahamas 24,453 7.13
117  Liechtenstein 23,000 63.83
118  Brunei 21,699 5.44
119  Angola 20,000 0.10
120  Uganda 19,800 0.06
—  Aruba 19,217 17.88
—  Cayman Islands 18,852 33.53
121  Saint Lucia 18,600 10.67
122  Burma 16,400 0.03
—  Faroe Islands 16,269 33.40
123  Fiji 16,000 1.86
124  Suriname 15,672 2.99
125  Maldives 15,553 4.92
126  Kyrgyzstan 15,400 0.29
127  Antigua and Barbuda 15,299 17.25
128  Cape Verde 15,103 3.04
129  Monaco 14,833 41.89
130  Mozambique 14,633 0.06
131  Burkina Faso 13,705 0.08
132  Saint Kitts and Nevis 13,100 25.00
133  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 12,502 11.43
134  Laos 12,025 0.19
—  Greenland 12,010 20.96
135  Botswana 11,978 0.60
136  Guyana 11,972 1.59
137  Zambia 10,700 0.08
138  Grenada 10,573 10.12
139  San Marino 10,100 32.03
140  Namibia 9,640 0.42
—  Gibraltar 9,300 31.80
141  Belize 8,915 2.86
142  Bhutan 8,675 1.20
143  Congo, Democratic Republic of 8,673 0.01
144  Djibouti 8,058 0.91
145  Côte d'Ivoire 7,900 0.04
146  Mauritania 6,624 0.19
147  Seychelles 6,278 7.26
148  Papua New Guinea 6,100 0.09
149  Togo 5,420 0.09
150  Malawi 5,120 0.03
151  Madagascar 4,942 0.02
152  Tajikistan 4,700 0.07
153  Kenya 4,305 0.01
154  Ethiopia 4,107 0.00
155  Gabon 3,761 0.25
156  Niger 3,707 0.02
157  Cuba 3,706 0.03
158  Tanzania 3,150 0.01
—  Guam 3,000 1.67
159  Rwanda 2,640 0.02
160  Mali 2,314 0.02
161  Solomon Islands 2,000 0.37
—  Cook Islands 1,675 8.26
162  Swaziland 1,626 0.14
163  Afghanistan 1,500 0.00
164  Equatorial Guinea 1,186 0.17
—  Falkland Islands 1,173 38.88
—  Wallis and Futuna 1,061 7.82
165  Tonga 1,000 0.96
166  Cameroon 1,000 0.01
167  Micronesia, Federated States of 998 0.90
168  Kiribati 900 0.90
169  Turkmenistan 723 0.01
170  São Tomé and Príncipe 582 0.35
—  Saint Helena 537 13.04
171  Guinea 500 0.01
172  Nauru 400 3.90
173  Lesotho 400 0.02
174  Gambia, The 350 0.02
175  Tuvalu 320 3.26
176  Vanuatu 300 0.13
177  Palau 233 1.14
178  Samoa 200 0.11
179  Timor-Leste 200 0.02
180  Burundi 200 0.00
181  Liberia 186 0.00
182  Chad 150 0.00
183  Congo, Republic of the 124 0.00
184  Eritrea 111 0.00
185  Iraq 77 0.00
—  Montserrat 50 0.84
186  Comoros 0 0.00

Countries by number of broadband Internet users

Abbreviations
Rank Country DSL p.p. Cable p.p. Other p.p. Total p.p. H.p. Total subscribers Date
—  World[3] 4.5% N/A N/A 7.0% N/A 523,070,000 Dec. 2010
1 China[3] 6.3% N/A N/A 7.7% N/A 116,650,000 Mar. 2011 [4]
2 United States[5] 10.9% 14.6% 1.7% 27.2% N/A 83,344,927 Jun. 2010
3 Japan[5] 7.3% 4.2% 14.8% 26.3% N/A 33,537,796 Jun. 2010
4 Germany[5] 27.9% 3.2% 0.3% 31.3% N/A 25,599,360 Jun. 2010
5 France[5] 29.7% 1.6% 0.1% 31.4% N/A 20,257,000 Jun. 2010
6 United Kingdom[5] 24.1% 6.4% 0.0% 30.5% N/A 18,827,700 Jun. 2010
7 South Korea[5] 5.9% 10.6% 17.9% 34.4% N/A 16,789,170 Jun. 2010
8 Russia[6] 5.4%[3] N/A N/A 11.5% 27.2%[7] 16,500,000 Mar. 2011
9 Brazil[8] 4.7% 1.9% 1.5% 8.1% N/A 15,473,038 Dec. 2010
10 Italy[5] 20.9% 0.0% 0.5% 21.3% N/A 12,849,074 Jun. 2010
11 India [9] N/A N/A N/A 0.9% N/A 12,120,000 June. 2011
12 Mexico[5] 7.8% 2.2% 0.1% 10.1% N/A 10,843,812 Jun. 2010
13 Spain[5] 18.0% 4.1% 0.1% 22.2% N/A 10,261,933 Jun. 2010
14 Canada[5] 13.1% 16.9% 0.0% 30.1% N/A 10,138,741 Jun. 2010
15 Turkey[5] 9.0 0.3% 0.1% 12.3% N/A 9,098,755 Mar. 2011
16 Netherlands[5] 22.0% 14.8% 0.9% 37.8% N/A 6,245,000 Jun. 2010
17 Australia[5] 19.3% 4.1% 0.1% 23.4% N/A 5,167,000 Jun. 2010
18 Republic of China (Taiwan)[3] 10.1% N/A N/A 21.6% N/A 5,001,000 Dec. 2009
19 Poland[5] 7.6% 4.0% 1.4% 13.1% N/A 4,982,882 Jun. 2010
20 Argentina[10] 6.4% 2.3% 2.5% 11.2% N/A 4,507,703 Dec. 2010
21 Belgium[5] 16.7% 13.2% 0.1% 30.0% N/A 3,237,052 Jun. 2010
22 Malaysia[11] N/A N/A N/A 64.6% N/A 3,210,700 Oct. 2010
23 Vietnam[3] 3.3% N/A N/A 3.4% N/A 3,013,000 Dec. 2009
24 Sweden[5] 17.5% 6.4% 7.9% 31.8% N/A 2,966,384 Jun. 2010
25 Romania[3] 3.7% N/A N/A 13.4% N/A 2,934,762 Dec. 2009
26 Switzerland[5] 25.9% 10.4% 0.8% 37.1% N/A 2,894,830 Jun. 2010
27 Hong Kong[3] 19.3% N/A N/A 34.3% N/A 2,417,654 Dec. 2009
28 Colombia[12] 3.3% 1.6% 0.2% 5.1% N/A 2,309,688 Mar. 2010
29 Greece [13] 19.9% 0.0% 0.0% 19.9% N/A 2,252,653 Jan. 2011
30 Denmark[5] 22.3% 10.0% 5.1% 37.3% N/A 2,062,000 Jun. 2010
31 Portugal[5] 10.5% 7.6% 0.7% 18.9% N/A 2,013,528 Jun. 2010
32 Austria[5] 15.9% 6.9% 0.2% 23.0% N/A 1,921,445 Jun. 2010
33 Ukraine[3] 1.8% N/A N/A 4.1% N/A 1,872,900 Dec. 2009
34 Hungary[5] 8.2% 8.7% 1.8% 18.7% N/A 1,870,149 Jun. 2010
35 Chile[5] 5.4% 4.8% 0.0% 10.2% N/A 1,729,575 Jun. 2010
36 Philippines[3] 1.6% N/A N/A 1.9% N/A 1,722,407 Dec. 2009
37 Norway[5] 20.2% 9.2% 4.9% 34.2% N/A 1,653,837 Jun. 2010
38 Israel[14] 14.9% N/A N/A 24.3%[15] N/A 1,560,000 Dec. 2007
39 Venezuela[16] N/A N/A N/A 5.0% N/A 1,460,149 Jun. 2010
40 Czech Republic[5] 7.7% 4.5% 1.5% 13.7% N/A 1,446,900 Jun. 2010
41 Finland[5] 21.8% 4.3% 0.3% 26.4% N/A 1,407,500 Jun. 2010
42 New Zealand[5] 23.0% 1.5% 0.1% 24.5% N/A 1,048,518 Jun. 2010
43 Croatia[17] N/A N/A N/A 23.00% 70.02% 1,029,063 Jun. 2010
44 Peru[18] N/A N/A N/A 3.3% N/A 912,323 Jun. 2010
45 Republic of Ireland[5] 16.3 3.9 0.1 20.3% N/A 907,859 Jun. 2010
46 Pakistan[14] N/A N/A N/A 0.53%[15] N/A 900,648 Aug. 2010
47 Slovakia[5] 7.0% 1.6% 3.4% 12.0% N/A 651,268 Jun. 2010
48 Egypt[14] N/A N/A N/A 0.5%[15] N/A 437,207 Dec. 2007
49 Indonesia[19] N/A N/A N/A 0.18%[19] N/A 400,000 2008
50 Uruguay[20] N/A N/A N/A 11.0% N/A 382,948 Dec. 2010
51 Iran[19] N/A N/A N/A 0.41%[19] N/A 300,000 2008
52 Ecuador[21] N/A N/A N/A 1.6% N/A 242,134 Oct. 2010
53 Luxembourg[5] 28.0% 5.8% 0.3% 34.1% N/A 169,757 Jun. 2010
54 Bolivia[22] 0.8% 0.1% 0.2% 1.1% N/A 122,522 Jun. 2010
55 Iceland[5] 30.5% 0.0% 2.8% 33.3% N/A 106,258 Jun. 2010
56 Belarus[14] N/A N/A N/A 1.0%[15] N/A 101,000 Dec. 2007
N/A Monaco[14] N/A N/A N/A 38.0% 93.8% N/A Dec. 2007
N/A Singapore[23] N/A N/A N/A N/A 99.9% N/A Dec. 2008
N/A Macau[14] N/A N/A N/A N/A 82.5% N/A Dec. 2007

See also

References

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