In 2012, the global average Internet bandwidth was estimated at 2.9 Mb/s. Large disparities exist between different continents. Overview of the different Internet connection speeds in Europe and abroad.

Several units of measurements are used to assess the speed of Internet connection:

Megabit per second: Mb/s,

Kilobits per second: Kb/s

Kilobytes per second: KB/s.These units are used to determine the amount of Internet data on a site (texts, photos, videos, etc..) that can be displayed in a second.

The display speed of a page depends on:

Weight (images, text tc)

The performance of the Internet connection.

The ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) and fiber optics connection are considered as the most effective solution to connect to the internet.

France: 4.804 Mb/s

Germany: 6.035 Mb/s

United Kingdom: 6.470 Mb/s

Spain: 4.931 Mb/s

Portugal: 4.993 Mb/s

Italy: 3.995 Mb/s

Greece: 3.978 Mb/s

Poland: 5.568 Mb/s

Croatia: 3.279 Mb/s

Sweden: 7.265 Mb/s

Russia: 5.074 Mb/s

China: 1.769 Mb/s

Japan: 10.795 Mb/s

India: 1.238 Mb/s

Thailand: 3.257 Mb/s

Vietnam: 1.471 Mb/s

Malaysia: 2.299 Mb/s

Indonesia: 1.437 Mb/s

Taiwan: 3.944 Mb/s

Cambodia: 1.476 Mb/s

United States: 7,611 Mb/s

Canada: 6.807 Mb/s

Mexico: 2.941 Mb/s

Brazil: 2.330 Mb/s

Argentina: 2.109 Kb/s

Peru: 1.955 Mb/s

Chile: 2.930 Kb/s

Jamaica: 4.009 Mb/s

Cuba: 157 Kb/s

Bahamas: 3.204 Mb/s

Morocco: 1.800 Mb/s

Algeria: 880 Kb/s

Tunisia: 1.448 Mb/s

Senegal: 872 Kb/s

Ivory Coast: 1.283 Mb/s

Namibia: 972 Kb/s

Madagascar: 1.140 Mb/s

Egypt: 1.260 Mb/s

Kenya: 1.946 Mb/s

South Africa: 2.131 Mb/s

Australia: 4.194 Mb/s

New Zealand: 4.038 Mb/s

New Caledonia: 3.415 Mb/s

Fiji: 1.328 Mb/s

Vanuatu: 3.946 Mb/s

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