Did You Know That Liechtenstein’s Broadband Internet is the Fastest in the World?

According to the latest internet comparison site Cable ranking done in December 2021; Liechtenstein has the fastest broadband internet in the world with an average speed of 211.26Mbps.

Destination Liechtenstein, officially the Principality of Liechtenstein, is a small landlocked country in the Upper Rhine Valley between Austria in the east and Switzerland in the west.

The development of telecommunications in Liechtenstein is roughly equivalent to the average of the European Union. Under the country code +423, there were a total of 61,627 connections in 2020. Among them were 48,904 mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.3 per person. In the EU, this figure is 1.2 mobile phones per person.

In the expansion of broadband Internet connections, Liechtenstein is very well in the race. Around 98 percent of all residents have access to the Internet (compared to 95 percent in the UK, or 6 percent in Chad). The population enjoys excellent connectivity with fast, reliable providers.

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Approximately 47 percent have a fast Internet connection, which is at least faster than the previous ISDN (more than 2048 kbit/s).

With about 14,278 web hosts, Liechtenstein is below the world’s average population. At the end of 2020, 2,000 million of these, or about 14 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.

Following closely is Iceland which managed to bring at least 100Mbps to 99.9% of its population in 2021 and Andorra which has 92% of its population as internet users. The country enjoys excellent connectivity.

Below is a list showing the top ten countries with the fastest and best internet connection in the world in 2021

1. Liechtenstein
2. Iceland
3. Andorra
4. Monaco
5. Luxembourg
6. Netherlands
7. Hungary
8. Singapore
9. Japan
10. USA

Senegal and Mali now have the fastest internet speeds in Africa, with Kenya falling below several other countries.

The Speedtest Global Index shows that Kenya has relinquished its position to Senegal, whose fixed broadband speed was ranked at position 105 globally in 2021. The country registered speeds of 35.01 Megabits per second (Mbps).

Kenya now ranks twelfth on the continent in broadband at 19.35Mbps, lower than its mobile internet speed of 22.14 Mbps, ranking at position nine.