ITU 2020 Mobile Broadband Basket - Alliance for Affordable Internet

Data-Only Mobile-Broadband Basket

(1.5GB, 3G and above)


Economies	as % of GNI p.c.	USD	PPP
Afghanistan	10.79	4.65	20.78
Albania	1.03	4.56	9.81
Algeria	0.78	2.34	7.70
Andorra	NA	28.46	NA
Angola	3.24	4.65	18.66
Anguilla	NA	44.44	NA
Antigua and Barbuda	2.65	37.04	41.01
Argentina	1.06	5.82	19.19
Armenia	0.96	3.71	10.79
Aruba	1.20	27.37	31.95
Australia	0.81	34.21	32.76
Austria	0.27	11.34	12.15
Azerbaijan	1.23	4.71	16.33
Bahamas	0.55	14.55	13.13
Bahrain	1.51	27.93	51.62
Bangladesh	1.90	3.04	8.18
Barbados	1.88	27.50	22.42
Belarus	0.74	3.38	12.76
Belgium	0.44	17.01	17.94
Belize	4.80	17.50	24.68
Benin	4.24	4.32	11.89
Bhutan	0.93	2.08	7.53
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	2.49	7.24	19.17
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.33	6.78	14.99
Botswana	1.05	5.86	13.54
Brazil	1.43	7.43	16.67
British Virgin Islands	NA	20.00	18.25
Brunei Darussalam	0.28	7.18	14.88
Bulgaria	1.23	9.85	22.56
Burkina Faso	10.86	6.91	21.17
Burundi	14.90	3.15	9.91
Côte d’Ivoire	4.62	8.64	21.26
Cabo Verde	2.76	8.22	17.12
Cambodia	1.62	2.00	5.51
Cameroon	3.90	4.84	11.90
Canada	0.67	24.95	26.04
Cayman Islands	0.74	30.00	21.55
Central African Rep.	24.44	10.37	20.13
Chad	17.59	10.37	25.50
Chile	0.72	7.48	12.27
China	0.51	4.28	7.18
Colombia	2.35	10.55	27.12
Comoros	7.81	9.22	18.66
Congo (Rep. of the)	8.00	12.10	24.69
Costa Rica	0.71	6.88	10.72
Croatia	1.60	19.36	33.52
Cuba	3.02	20.00	NA
Curacao	2.01	33.16	39.66
Cyprus	0.90	20.41	27.41
Czech Republic	0.30	5.29	8.96
Dem. Rep. of the Congo	32.31	14.00	34.20
Denmark	0.35	18.10	15.48
Djibouti	5.71	16.88	28.87
Dominica	4.62	31.48	45.96
Dominican Rep.	3.08	18.20	42.18
Ecuador	2.21	11.20	20.32
Egypt	1.01	2.71	11.27
El Salvador	3.00	10.00	20.02
Equatorial Guinea	NA	NA	NA
Eritrea	NA	NA	NA
Estonia	0.38	7.36	10.46
Eswatini	5.33	12.63	34.88
Ethiopia	9.52	5.57	17.69
Falkland (Malvinas) Is.	NA	63.30	NA
Faroe Islands	0.31	14.30	NA
Fiji	2.72	12.82	27.92
Finland	0.77	31.64	30.22
France	0.49	17.00	18.02
Gabon	1.72	10.37	18.27
Gambia	8.37	5.02	15.66
Georgia	0.56	1.92	6.29
Germany	0.42	17.00	19.27
Ghana	2.03	3.41	9.82
Gibraltar	NA	22.79	NA
Greece	0.47	7.83	10.94
Greenland	NA	53.10	NA
Grenada	3.40	28.15	42.92
Guatemala	3.40	12.84	21.80
Guinea	6.51	5.29	13.50
Guinea-Bissau	24.65	15.56	43.78
Guyana	4.08	18.23	33.15
Haiti	3.42	1.69	4.52
Honduras	8.23	16.20	35.34
Hong Kong, China	0.21	9.03	11.10
Hungary	0.34	4.15	8.33
Iceland	0.37	18.64	16.84
India	1.62	2.65	9.44
Indonesia	1.33	4.24	12.14
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	0.88	3.31	6.30
Iraq	1.71	8.46	18.38
Ireland	0.78	39.70	35.93
Israel	0.31	11.51	9.59
Italy	0.40	11.33	13.34
Jamaica	2.85	11.84	23.37
Japan	1.16	40.97	39.69
Jordan	3.54	12.68	27.09
Kazakhstan	0.36	2.37	7.39
Kenya	3.31	4.66	11.75
Kiribati	5.14	13.69	19.53
Korea (Rep. of)	0.40	10.27	12.76
Kuwait	0.51	16.27	27.37
Kyrgyzstan	2.83	2.58	10.49
Lao P.D.R.	2.37	4.90	13.89
Latvia	0.84	12.46	19.19
Lebanon	3.46	21.90	41.37
Lesotho	6.29	5.74	18.05
Liberia	8.28	4.00	7.79
Libya	1.76	11.38	22.35
Liechtenstein	0.16	25.48	NA
Lithuania	0.71	11.23	19.54
Luxembourg	0.18	11.33	10.46
Macao, China	0.16	11.02	14.73
Madagascar	16.41	6.56	23.61
Malawi	20.02	6.70	17.53
Malaysia	0.91	8.21	20.81
Maldives	1.83	14.95	24.47
Mali	4.72	3.46	10.30
Malta	0.75	17.01	23.58
Marshall Islands	NA	NA	NA
Mauritania	3.95	5.35	15.90
Mauritius	0.67	6.15	13.75
Mexico	1.30	8.80	18.80
Micronesia	10.59	30.00	28.73
Moldova	0.48	1.74	4.54
Monaco	NA	45.35	NA
Mongolia	1.95	5.85	17.19
Montenegro	0.89	6.69	14.18
Morocco	0.79	2.08	4.76
Mozambique	7.99	2.86	8.88
Myanmar	1.04	1.30	4.14
Namibia	2.54	8.45	20.57
Nauru	1.92	21.21	23.55
Nepal (Republic of)	2.55	2.16	8.09
Netherlands	0.64	28.35	29.46
New Zealand	0.37	12.13	12.06
Nicaragua	5.44	8.18	22.91
Niger	15.00	6.91	16.95
Nigeria	1.71	2.70	7.45
North Macedonia	1.68	8.24	20.11
Norway	0.52	31.23	27.86
Oman	1.02	13.00	24.40
Pakistan	0.51	0.48	2.16
Palau	1.74	25.00	28.20
Palestine	2.33	7.21	10.66
Panama	1.75	21.40	43.76
Papua New Guinea	10.69	24.26	29.90
Paraguay	2.95	11.81	30.75
Peru	1.51	8.23	14.90
Philippines	1.36	4.53	11.22
Poland	0.21	2.53	5.31
Portugal	0.89	17.00	23.40
Puerto Rico	2.13	39.03	39.55
Qatar	0.31	16.48	21.72
Romania	0.86	9.07	20.41
Russian Federation	0.91	7.54	20.42
Rwanda	6.88	4.26	13.79
Saint Kitts and Nevis	2.37	37.04	40.64
Saint Lucia	3.25	29.59	38.62
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	5.70	35.19	52.64
Samoa	4.44	14.91	21.42
San Marino	NA	17.01	NA
Sao Tome and Principe	6.11	9.88	19.42
Saudi Arabia	0.72	14.00	31.67
Senegal	2.76	3.28	8.13
Serbia	1.14	6.74	14.37
Seychelles	2.03	22.19	43.67
Sierra Leone	15.60	5.63	20.23
Singapore	0.37	17.94	23.89
Slovakia	0.35	5.67	8.46
Slovenia	0.74	15.87	21.80
Solomon Islands	11.97	19.95	21.21
Somalia	NA	4.00	NA
South Africa	2.53	10.21	26.05
Spain	0.31	7.88	9.87
Sri Lanka	0.28	0.82	2.74
Sudan	4.46	1.75	7.56
Suriname	2.34	11.39	28.34
Sweden	0.48	21.45	21.38
Switzerland	0.65	47.78	34.27
Syrian Arab Republic	NA	NA	NA
Taiwan, Province of China	NA	10.07	NA
Tajikistan	7.45	5.85	21.88
Tanzania	6.75	6.17	18.28
Thailand	1.18	7.24	17.66
Timor-Leste	4.44	7.00	16.51
Togo	15.10	8.64	20.81
Tonga	2.47	8.68	11.53
Trinidad and Tobago	2.33	33.17	53.91
Tunisia	1.28	3.53	12.27
Turkey	0.95	5.68	18.28
Turkmenistan	3.60	20.00	42.57
Uganda	8.49	5.36	16.18
Ukraine	1.54	4.59	15.55
United Arab Emirates	0.79	28.59	38.22
United Kingdom	0.55	18.99	19.34
United States	0.40	21.78	21.78
Uruguay	1.03	10.78	16.74
Uzbekistan	2.32	2.95	13.47
Vanuatu	5.10	12.93	12.68
Viet Nam	1.04	2.15	6.28
Yemen	10.06	15.98	44.27
Zambia	3.65	2.67	10.52
Zimbabwe	NA	11.22	NA

Methods and Sources

The above figures are based on the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) ICT price data collection rules to determine the cheapest data-only mobile-broadband basket per economy. That is, the cheapest plan providing at least 1.5GB of high speed data (≥ 256Kbit/s) over a 30-day (or four weeks) period of time from the operator with the largest market share in each economy. The pricing data was collected by the A4AI and the ITU during the second quarter (Apr-Jun) of 2020.

In this basket no data was available for Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Marshall Islands and Syrian Arab Republic.

Gross National Income (GNI) per capita data and PPP conversion factors are from the World Bank World Development Indicators, 2019 (or last available year). GNI per capita current LCU was used for all cases, unless when prices were registered in USD. In those cases the Atlas method (current US$) was used instead. Where private consumption PPP ratios were unavailable in recent years (since 2017), estimations are used based on applying change index of PPP ratios for GDP if available on last available PPP ratio for private consumption. No recent (2017 or later) GNI data was available for Andorra, Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Greenland, Monaco, San Marino, Somalia, Taiwan, province of China and Zimbabwe.

The reference exchange rates are based on 2020 Q2-Q3 average (extracted 20.11.2020) from the IMF (Exchange Rates, Domestic Currency per US Dollar, Period Average, Rate – ENDA_XDC_USD_RATE) and UN OPS (Operational rates of exchange – monthly).

The designations employed and the presentation of material on the map do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of ITU and of the Secretariat of the ITU concerning the legal status of the country, territory, city or area or its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.

Palestine is not an ITU Member State; the status of Palestine in ITU is the subject of Resolution 99 (rev. Dubai, 2018) of the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference.

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