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

Countries by number of fixed broadband subscriptions

The following is a list of countries by fixed (wired) broadband

Broadband

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 subscriptions and penetration rate, compiled by the International Telecommunication Union

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 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

Cable modem

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, 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.

Rank	Country	Fixed broadband subscriptions	Per 100 inhabitants
1	Mainland 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	Early Modern France	21,300,000	33.92
6	United Kingdom	19,468,000	31.38
7	South Korea	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	Mexico	11,325,022	9.98
12	India	10,990,000	0.90
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	Republic of China	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	Vietnam	3,631,396	4.13
23	Belgium	3,373,143	31.49
24	Kingdom of 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	Kingdom of Bulgaria	1,101,634	14.70
49	New Zealand	1,089,000	24.93
50	Republic of 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	Independent State of 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		256,943	12.47
75	Georgia (country)	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
—	Macau	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	Kingdom of 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	The 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	Myanmar	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		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		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		350	0.02
175	Tuvalu	320	3.26
176	Vanuatu	300	0.13
177	Palau	233	1.14
178	Samoa	200	0.11
179	East Timor	200	0.02
180	Burundi	200	0.00
181	Liberia	186	0.00
182	Chad	150	0.00
183	Republic of the Congo	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

• p.p. - population penetration
• Total p.p. - Total population penetration = Total subscribers / Total country population.
• H.p. - Household penetration = Total home subscribers / Total number of households in the country.

Rank	Country	DSL p.p.	Cable p.p.	Other p.p.	Total p.p.	H.p.	Total subscribers	Date
—	World World World is a common name for the whole of human civilization, specifically human experience, history, or the human condition in general, worldwide, i.e. anywhere on Earth....	4.5%			7.0%		523,070,000	Dec. 2010
1	China Internet in the People's Republic of China The first connection of the mainland of the People's Republic of China with the Internet was established on between ICA Beijing and Karlsruhe University in Germany, under the leadership of Prof. Werner Zorn and Prof. Wang Yunfeng. Since then the Internet in China has grown to host the largest base...	6.3%			7.7%		116,650,000	Mar. 2011
2	United States Internet in the United States The Internet in the United States grew out of the ARPANET, a network sponsored by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense during the 1960s...	10.9%	14.6%	1.7%	27.2%		83,344,927	Jun. 2010
3	Japan Internet in Japan In Japan, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone planned a step-up process from dialup , ISDN, to fiber to the home . Under this plan, NTT had been selling ISDN lines primarily toward private users while corporate users sometimes skipped ISDN entirely and immediately upgraded to the still-expensive FTTH...	7.3%	4.2%	14.8%	26.3%		33,537,796	Jun. 2010
4	Germany Internet in Germany -xDSL Providers:, Deutsche Telekom has more than 10 million DSL customers in Germany, making Germany one of the top DSL countries in the European Union. Deutsche Telekom has a number of resellers, and many ISPs providing the service for it...	27.9%	3.2%	0.3%	31.3%		25,599,360	Jun. 2010
5	France Internet in France In metropolitan France, intense competition between Internet service providers has led to the introduction of moderately-priced high speed ADSL up to 28 Mbit/s for 29,90€ per month. They often include other services such as unlimited free VoIP telephone communications to land lines, and digital...	29.7%	1.6%	0.1%	31.4%		20,257,000	Jun. 2010
6	United Kingdom Internet in the United Kingdom The United Kingdom has been involved with the Internet since the latter's creation.The Internet country code top-level domain for the United Kingdom is .uk and is sponsored by Nominet....	24.1%	6.4%	0.0%	30.5%		18,827,700	Jun. 2010
7	South Korea Internet in South Korea South Korea has emerged to become the world leader in Internet connectivity and speed. The government had established policies and programs that facilitated a rapid expansion and use of broadband.-National program:...	5.9%	10.6%	17.9%	34.4%		16,789,170	Jun. 2010
8	Russia	5.4%			11.5%	27.2%	16,500,000	Mar. 2011
9	Brazil Internet in Brazil The Internet was launched in Brazil in 1988, when the National Research Network , was formed by the academic communities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo...	4.7%	1.9%	1.5%	8.1%		15,473,038	Dec. 2010
10	Italy Internet in Italy The Internet country code top-level domain for Italy is .it and is sponsored by Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. The .eu domain is also used, as it is shared with other European Union member states....	20.9%	0.0%	0.5%	21.3%		12,849,074	Jun. 2010
11	India				0.9%		12,120,000	June. 2011
12	Mexico Internet in Mexico Mexico has approximately 70 million Internet users and is currently experiencing a huge surge in demand for broadband Internet services. Mexico is the country with the most Internet users among Spanish speaking counties in the western hemisphere, and in August 2005 Cisco Systems, the industry...	7.8%	2.2%	0.1%	10.1%		10,843,812	Jun. 2010
13	Spain Internet in Spain This articles is about Internet in Spain.ADSL arrived in Spain in 1999.- Fixed lines :The main ISPs are:* movistar - Former state telecom monopoly* Vodafone - ADSL and VoIP provider* Orange - Formerly Wanadoo, the Internet branch of Uni2...	18.0%	4.1%	0.1%	22.2%		10,261,933	Jun. 2010
14	Canada Internet in Canada -Web use:Canadian web users are similar to those in the other countries. The most popular sites in Canada are the major international ones, such as Google, Yahoo!, and MSN....	13.1%	16.9%	0.0%	30.1%		10,138,741	Jun. 2010
15	Turkey Internet in Turkey Turkey has had public Internet access since 1993, although experimentation at Ege University started in 1987. The first available connections were dial-up. Cable Internet has been available since 1998 and ADSL since 2003....	9.0	0.3%	0.1%	12.3%		9,098,755	Mar. 2011
16	Netherlands Internet in the Netherlands According to research done by the OECD the Netherlands is ranked with Switzerland in having the most broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, has no bandwidth caps and has the most homes passed in Europe in terms of connection speeds of 50 Mbps and higher....	22.0%	14.8%	0.9%	37.8%		6,245,000	Jun. 2010
17	Australia Internet in Australia Internet access was first available in Australia to universities via AARNet in 1989. The first commercial dial-up ISPs appeared in capital cities soon after and by the mid-1990s almost the entire country had a wide choice of dial-up Internet access providers...	19.3%	4.1%	0.1%	23.4%		5,167,000	Jun. 2010
18	Republic of China (Taiwan Taiwan Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following... )	10.1%			21.6%		5,001,000	Dec. 2009
19	Poland Internet in Poland The most popular ADSL services for home users in Poland are Neostrada provided by TPSA and Net24 provided by Netia. Both provide download speeds in the range of 1 to 6 Mb/sec. and upload speeds of 512kb/sec or more. Business users as well as some home users use Internet DSL TP also offered by TPSA...	7.6%	4.0%	1.4%	13.1%		4,982,882	Jun. 2010
20	Argentina	6.4%	2.3%	2.5%	11.2%		4,507,703	Dec. 2010
21	Belgium Internet in Belgium -ADSL/VDSL Internet Providers:ADSL first appeared in Belgium in 1999, named Turboline. The first network was set up by the incumbent Belgian telecom operator Belgacom and has been expanding ever since. In 2004 nearly 90% of the entire territory has access to ADSL from Belgacom...	16.7%	13.2%	0.1%	30.0%		3,237,052	Jun. 2010
22	Malaysia Internet in Malaysia The year 1995 was considered the beginning of the Internet age in Malaysia. The growth in the number of Internet hosts in Malaysia began around 1996. The country's first search engine and web portal company, Cari Internet, was also founded that year...				64.6%		3,210,700	Oct. 2010
23	Vietnam	3.3%			3.4%		3,013,000	Dec. 2009
24	Sweden Internet in Sweden In Sweden, household broadband is mainly available through cable and ADSL , but in many places also through copper Ethernet LAN networked via fibre MANs connecting buildings .-Cable:...	17.5%	6.4%	7.9%	31.8%		2,966,384	Jun. 2010
25	Romania Internet in Romania In Romania there are 7.8 million connections to the Internet, out of which 4 million are broadband .Country code : .roThe .eu domain is also used, as it is shared with other European Union member states....	3.7%			13.4%		2,934,762	Dec. 2009
26	Switzerland Internet in Switzerland In Switzerland, approximately two thirds of home broadband subscriptions are via DSL, specifically ADSL and VDSL, with the remaining third using cable...	25.9%	10.4%	0.8%	37.1%		2,894,830	Jun. 2010
27	Hong Kong	19.3%			34.3%		2,417,654	Dec. 2009
28	Colombia Internet in Colombia Internet access in Colombia shows a marked increase during the last few years. As of September 2009, the web connections surpassed two million, as compared with an estimated total of 900,000 Internet subscribers by the end of 2005...	3.3%	1.6%	0.2%	5.1%		2,309,688	Mar. 2010
29	Greece Internet in Greece Internet access in Greece relied on PSTN/ISDN modem dial-up from 1990 until 2003, when ADSL was commercially launched in Greece by incumbent operator OTE. ADSL is currently the main broadband standard...	19.9%	0.0%	0.0%	19.9%		2,252,653	Jan. 2011
30	Denmark Internet in Denmark ADSL was introduced commercially to Denmark in winter 1999. The service has been rolled out very extensively and the national coverage is now above 97% of the Danish population...	22.3%	10.0%	5.1%	37.3%		2,062,000	Jun. 2010
31	Portugal Internet in Portugal ADSL service has been available in Portugal since 2000, however it wasn't until 2002 that the service started to see wide acceptance from the general public, mainly due to increased competition from service providers, which helped to level prices...	10.5%	7.6%	0.7%	18.9%		2,013,528	Jun. 2010
32	Austria	15.9%	6.9%	0.2%	23.0%		1,921,445	Jun. 2010
33	Ukraine Internet in Ukraine The largest DSL provider in Ukraine is Ukrtelecom . DSL prices are available across the country and at the same prices.Several local ISP exist. In particular, the capital Kiev is served by cable provider ....	1.8%			4.1%		1,872,900	Dec. 2009
34	Hungary	8.2%	8.7%	1.8%	18.7%		1,870,149	Jun. 2010
35	Chile Internet in Chile The technical regulator of the Internet in Chile is the Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications, through the Undersecretariat of Telecommunications .The Internet country code is .cl.-Usage:...	5.4%	4.8%	0.0%	10.2%		1,729,575	Jun. 2010
36	Philippines Internet in the Philippines Internet in the Philippines has been undergoing development since it was made available in 1994. As of 2010, 29,750,000 people use the internet in the country accounting for 29.7% of the total population. The top-level domain of the country is .ph-History:...	1.6%			1.9%		1,722,407	Dec. 2009
37	Norway Internet in Norway ADSL became available to private consumers around late 2000.Depending on the provider, offered speeds range from 512/128 kbit/s to as high as 8/1 Mbit/s for ADSL, while ADSL2+ is slowly becoming available with speeds reaching up to 24/1.5 Mbit/s....	20.2%	9.2%	4.9%	34.2%		1,653,837	Jun. 2010
38	Israel Internet in Israel Broadband Internet in Israel has been available since the late 1990s in theory, but it only became practical to most customers in 2001. By 2008, Israel has become one of the few countries with developed broadband capabilities across two types of infrastructure, reaching over 95% of the population....	14.9%			24.3%		1,560,000	Dec. 2007
39	Venezuela Internet in Venezuela Internet use in Venezuela greatly expanded since 1998, but is mostly concentrated among younger, educated city residents, and use is centered around the capital, Caracas.-Use:...				5.0%		1,460,149	Jun. 2010
40	Czech Republic Internet in the Czech Republic -Wi-Fi:Because ADSL was very expensive for the average worker in its early days, an enormous number of wireless ISPs came to an existence offering reasonable priced monthly-plans since 2003. By the beginning of 2008, there was over 800 mostly local WISPs that had enormous market share of the...	7.7%	4.5%	1.5%	13.7%		1,446,900	Jun. 2010
41	Finland Internet in Finland - History :FUNET was created 1984 to link Finnish universities. The .fi top-level domain was registered 1986. FICIX was created in 1993 to interconnect Finnish IP networks and commercial sales of Internet connection began....	21.8%	4.3%	0.3%	26.4%		1,407,500	Jun. 2010
42	New Zealand Internet in New Zealand In New Zealand the major telephone company, Telecom New Zealand, owns the majority of the infrastructure and is the only provider of digital subscriber lines , which they wholesale to their subsidiary Xtra , as well as many of Telecom's "competitors", with varying speeds and download...	23.0%	1.5%	0.1%	24.5%		1,048,518	Jun. 2010
43	Croatia Internet in Croatia - ADSL :In Croatia ADSL was introduced in 2000. It is mainly controlled by the state-owned operator T-Com,which is former HT . Local loop was expected to be unbundling after 01.09.2006. As of 2010, this has only partially been done. There are companies offering ADSL2+ Internet Access and...				23.00%	70.02%	1,029,063	Jun. 2010
44	Peru				3.3%		912,323	Jun. 2010
45	Republic of Ireland Internet in Ireland Eircom, the largest telephone company in Ireland, began rolling out Broadband in 2002. With over 85 ISPs there is now significant choice and competition to the point where the average monthly subscription cost is $40.41 , 20% cheaper than the average of $49 for the 35 OECD countries...	16.3	3.9	0.1	20.3%		907,859	Jun. 2010
46	Pakistan Internet in Pakistan The Internet in Pakistan has been available since the early 1990s. According to the International Telecommunications Union there were 133,900 Internet users in 2000 or just 0.1% of the 164 million people in Pakistan. By 2006 use had grown to 12 million users or 7.2% of the population...				0.53%		900,648	Aug. 2010
47	Slovakia	7.0%	1.6%	3.4%	12.0%		651,268	Jun. 2010
48	Egypt Internet in Egypt The Internet in Egypt is built upon a modern infrastructure, including widespread broadband Internet access via ADSL. Internet freedom in Mubarak's Egypt was rated as only "partly free" by international watchdog Freedom House...				0.5%		437,207	Dec. 2007
49	Indonesia Internet in Indonesia Internet in Indonesia is a relatively new communication media in Indonesia, an archipelago that spans over more than 17,000 islands. Several internet services are available in Indonesia, ranging from ADSL to mobile internet...				0.18%		400,000	2008
50	Uruguay				11.0%		382,948	Dec. 2010
51	Iran Internet in Iran In 1993 Iran became the second country in the Middle East to be connected to the Internet, and since then the government has made significant efforts to improve the nation's ICT infrastructure. Iran's national Internet connectivity infrastructure is based on two major networks: the public switched...				0.41%		300,000	2008
52	Ecuador				1.6%		242,134	Oct. 2010
53	Luxembourg	28.0%	5.8%	0.3%	34.1%		169,757	Jun. 2010
54	Bolivia	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%	1.1%		122,522	Jun. 2010
55	Iceland Internet in Iceland The use of the Internet in Iceland places Iceland among the top countries in the world in terms of Internet deployment and use.-Access:Data compiled by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development shows Iceland with:...	30.5%	0.0%	2.8%	33.3%		106,258	Jun. 2010
56	Belarus				1.0%		101,000	Dec. 2007
	Monaco				38.0%	93.8%		Dec. 2007
	Singapore Internet in Singapore In Singapore, there are 6,791,000 broadband Internet subscribers . and household broadband penetration was at 82% the same year. There are four major Internet Service Providers in Singapore, namely, SingNet, StarHub, Pacnet and M1...					99.9%		Dec. 2008
	Macau					82.5%		Dec. 2007

See also

• List of Internet users by country
• National broadband plans from around the world
  National broadband plans from around the world
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