* indicates monthly or quarterly data series

International Internet bandwidth per Internet user, kb/s, 2016:

The average for 2016 based on 27 countries was 438.52 kilobits per second. The highest value was in Luxembourg: 6887.71 kilobits per second and the lowest value was in Slovakia: 11.46 kilobits per second. The indicator is available from 2012 to 2016. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Measure: kilobits per second; Source: International Telecommunication Union
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Countries Internet bandwidth, 2016 Global rank Available data
Luxembourg 6887.71 1 2012 - 2016
Malta 1178.76 2 2012 - 2016
Sweden 527.45 3 2012 - 2016
Denmark 341.71 4 2012 - 2016
Netherlands 281.06 5 2012 - 2016
Belgium 263.91 6 2012 - 2016
France 221.66 7 2012 - 2016
Portugal 218.88 8 2012 - 2016
Finland 218.74 9 2012 - 2016
Ireland 160.97 10 2012 - 2016
Germany 145.99 11 2012 - 2016
Bulgaria 135.11 12 2012 - 2016
Lithuania 125.45 13 2012 - 2016
Slovenia 121.14 14 2012 - 2016
Romania 117.32 15 2012 - 2016
Czechia 116.81 16 2012 - 2016
Spain 111.55 17 2012 - 2016
Greece 99.51 18 2012 - 2016
Latvia 93.68 19 2012 - 2016
Italy 92.5 20 2012 - 2016
Poland 90.36 21 2012 - 2016
Austria 79.64 22 2012 - 2016
Cyprus 75.05 23 2012 - 2016
Croatia 58.03 24 2012 - 2016
Hungary 37.03 25 2012 - 2016
Estonia 28.67 26 2012 - 2016
Slovakia 11.46 27 2012 - 2016



Definition: International Internet bandwidth is the sum of the capacity of all Internet exchanges offering international bandwidth measured in kilobits per second (kb/s).

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