Countries With the Lowest Fixed Broadband

Every country with a figure for fixed broadband, ranked from lowest to highest. The top three are Chad (0), South Sudan (0.00174) and Sierra Leone (0.00227). The middle country of the 208 has 13.5.

What this measures

Fixed broadband subscriptions (per 100 people). Source: International Telecommunication Union. For this measure, higher is better.

Subscriptions, not people. A household line counts once, however many people use it. A country that went straight to mobile data can be well connected with few of these lines. Internet users, already on the site, is the measure of people.

This measure mostly follows how rich a country is, so this ranking is close to a ranking by national income. Each country’s page also ranks it against countries with similar incomes, which is often the fairer comparison.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2021–2024. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

More on fixed broadband

• Countries With the Highest Fixed Broadband
• Fixed broadband by country: trend over time and what it goes with

Related rankings

• Countries With the Lowest Electricity Use per Person
• Countries With the Lowest Internet Users
• Countries With the Lowest Mobile Subscriptions
• Countries With the Lowest Electricity Access
• Countries With the Lowest Slum Share of Urban Population
• Countries With the Lowest Infrastructure Scores

A ranking describes countries, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All country rankings.