ITU 2021 Mobile Broadband Basket - Alliance for Affordable Internet

Data-Only Mobile-Broadband Basket

(2GB, 3G and above)


Economies	as % of GNI p.c.	USD	PPP
Afghanistan	12.14	5.16	23.29
Albania	2.16	9.80	19.20
Algeria	0.88	2.25	7.61
Andorra	NA	21.71	NA
Angola	3.56	4.62	20.83
Anguilla	NA	44.44	NA
Antigua and Barbuda	3.13	37.04	41.17
Argentina	1.39	7.13	22.17
Armenia	1.05	3.46	10.79
Aruba	1.16	27.37	31.95
Australia	0.24	11.55	9.47
Austria	0.29	12.06	11.86
Azerbaijan	1.69	5.88	20.11
Bahamas	0.68	15.70	14.33
Bahrain	1.06	19.55	37.75
Bangladesh	1.36	2.32	5.98
Barbados	2.63	31.75	25.89
Belarus	0.76	3.72	13.92
Belgium	0.46	18.09	17.78
Belize	4.18	14.06	19.04
Benin	6.53	7.35	18.69
Bhutan	0.89	2.11	7.22
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	2.80	7.24	19.23
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.35	7.20	14.96
Botswana	1.17	6.40	13.45
Brazil	0.63	3.40	7.35
British Virgin Islands	NA	20.00	18.25
Brunei Darussalam	0.28	7.50	14.78
Bulgaria	1.08	9.24	18.77
Burkina Faso	10.46	7.35	21.04
Burundi	13.65	3.05	9.35
Côte d’Ivoire	2.58	5.15	11.77
Cabo Verde	3.31	8.74	17.22
Cambodia	2.42	3.00	8.47
Cameroon	3.95	5.15	11.76
Canada	0.63	24.41	22.98
Cayman Islands	0.73	42.00	29.88
Central African Rep.	40.99	18.38	32.24
Chad	24.10	12.87	29.75
Chile	0.48	5.59	8.33
China	0.50	4.65	7.10
Colombia	1.86	8.12	19.73
Comoros	7.90	9.80	19.53
Congo (Rep. of the)	12.35	18.38	35.08
Costa Rica	0.72	6.50	11.10
Croatia	0.71	8.64	14.08
Cuba	NA	8.33	NA
Curacao	1.93	32.96	39.42
Cyprus	0.81	18.09	22.85
Czech Republic	0.51	10.29	14.94
Dem. Rep. of the Congo	10.91	5.00	11.16
Denmark	0.49	27.41	22.07
Djibouti	6.09	16.88	28.87
Dominica	5.62	31.48	46.09
Dominican Rep.	2.58	14.71	33.23
Ecuador	2.17	10.00	18.43
Egypt	1.09	3.20	11.81
El Salvador	4.93	15.00	30.51
Equatorial Guinea	23.54	110.28	193.67
Eritrea	NA	NA	NA
Estonia	0.24	4.81	6.52
Eswatini	4.05	12.74	28.54
Ethiopia	5.34	3.26	12.10
Faroe Islands	0.26	15.24	NA
Fiji	3.01	12.21	25.95
Finland	0.36	15.56	13.94
France	0.66	22.90	22.73
French Polynesia	NA	10.00	NA
Gabon	2.24	12.87	21.33
Gambia	12.18	7.91	23.35
Georgia	0.85	2.71	9.08
Germany	0.29	12.05	12.61
Ghana	2.33	4.32	12.64
Gibraltar	NA	20.97	NA
Greece	0.66	10.25	13.53
Greenland	NA	58.22	NA
Grenada	5.08	37.04	57.16
Guatemala	3.40	12.82	21.38
Guinea	5.74	4.98	12.35
Guinea-Bissau	8.45	5.51	13.39
Guyana	4.03	18.23	33.15
Haiti	18.53	20.83	37.68
Honduras	8.71	16.67	34.58
Hong Kong, China	0.13	5.41	6.72
Hungary	0.84	11.51	20.46
Iceland	0.42	21.84	17.24
India	1.10	1.75	6.09
Indonesia	0.85	2.71	7.47
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	NA	NA	NA
Iraq	2.45	6.90	18.75
Ireland	0.43	24.12	20.07
Israel	0.24	9.16	7.28
Italy	0.43	12.05	13.48
Jamaica	3.58	12.64	25.13
Japan	1.25	41.71	40.00
Jordan	3.67	13.07	28.19
Kazakhstan	0.91	6.05	18.33
Kenya	3.12	4.64	10.92
Kiribati	5.62	15.40	19.57
Korea (Rep. of)	0.53	14.71	16.79
Kuwait	0.54	16.61	27.37
Kyrgyzstan	2.76	2.37	9.98
Lao P.D.R.	2.67	5.31	15.20
Latvia	0.47	7.22	10.69
Lebanon	6.29	28.86	29.85
Lesotho	7.44	7.08	17.41
Liberia	18.11	8.00	16.85
Libya	3.58	3.57	31.87
Liechtenstein	0.07	10.86	NA
Lithuania	0.25	4.22	6.93
Luxembourg	0.18	12.05	10.03
Macao, China	0.17	11.00	14.83
Madagascar	13.19	5.30	18.35
Malawi	10.41	5.00	13.07
Malaysia	0.98	8.48	21.31
Maldives	2.97	17.25	28.94
Mali	10.08	7.35	20.77
Malta	0.54	12.05	15.47
Marshall Islands	NA	NA	NA
Mauritania	3.82	5.56	15.72
Mauritius	0.89	6.71	15.11
Mexico	1.39	9.99	18.04
Micronesia	8.98	30.00	31.35
Moldova	0.73	2.80	7.38
Monaco	NA	48.22	NA
Mongolia	1.94	5.79	16.78
Montenegro	2.26	15.56	31.20
Morocco	1.28	3.37	7.18
Mozambique	11.94	4.99	13.32
Myanmar	1.67	1.94	6.21
Namibia	2.59	10.42	20.38
Nauru	2.23	32.35	NA
Nepal (Republic of)	2.47	2.38	8.40
Netherlands	0.51	22.91	22.28
New Zealand	0.45	16.45	14.31
Nicaragua	6.61	10.03	27.96
Niger	15.34	7.35	16.95
Nigeria	2.00	2.99	8.94
North Macedonia	1.95	9.75	21.93
Norway	0.54	35.75	28.14
Oman	1.16	13.65	26.17
Pakistan	0.58	0.58	2.22
Palau	1.89	25.00	29.75
Palestine	2.44	7.66	10.64
Panama	2.09	20.00	42.05
Papua New Guinea	18.77	39.90	49.83
Paraguay	2.28	9.30	23.55
Peru	1.74	7.91	15.88
Philippines	2.04	6.21	14.71
Poland	0.51	6.64	12.95
Portugal	0.78	15.07	19.19
Puerto Rico	1.85	33.45	33.87
Qatar	0.40	16.48	22.56
Romania	0.55	6.03	12.62
Russian Federation	0.86	6.87	18.56
Rwanda	6.53	4.07	12.71
Saint Kitts and Nevis	2.59	37.04	41.51
Saint Lucia	4.06	29.59	39.11
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	6.07	37.04	55.90
Samoa	4.96	17.38	24.23
San Marino	NA	12.06	NA
Sao Tome and Principe	5.66	10.76	17.74
Saudi Arabia	0.90	15.33	33.94
Senegal	2.87	3.68	8.44
Serbia	1.48	9.73	19.12
Seychelles	2.52	24.19	43.67
Sierra Leone	14.40	5.37	18.05
Singapore	0.22	9.76	12.60
Slovakia	0.51	8.44	10.82
Slovenia	0.61	13.25	17.34
Solomon Islands	8.85	17.49	17.70
Somalia	7.74	2.00	NA
South Africa	2.32	11.25	22.82
South Sudan	NA	21.06	NA
Spain	0.30	7.17	8.50
Sri Lanka	0.44	1.22	4.09
Sudan	3.36	1.25	7.73
Suriname	3.58	9.96	37.99
Sweden	0.36	17.72	15.60
Switzerland	0.30	21.84	14.84
Syrian Arab Republic	NA	3.52	NA
Taiwan, Province of China	NA	17.86	NA
Tajikistan	7.54	5.74	24.31
Tanzania	4.90	4.33	12.65
Thailand	1.40	8.16	20.14
Timor-Leste	4.59	7.00	16.71
Togo	11.37	9.19	20.69
Tonga	2.05	8.87	10.75
Trinidad and Tobago	2.61	33.13	54.68
Tunisia	1.16	3.16	10.29
Turkey	0.67	3.94	13.15
Turkmenistan	5.14	31.43	65.26
Tuvalu	3.09	16.48	NA
Uganda	8.04	5.60	15.78
Ukraine	1.47	4.53	15.32
United Arab Emirates	0.63	22.87	31.61
United Kingdom	0.39	13.98	12.75
United States	0.70	37.80	37.80
Uruguay	0.97	11.28	16.50
Uzbekistan	1.07	1.42	6.15
Vanuatu	3.78	9.27	8.45
Viet Nam	0.49	1.08	3.08
Yemen	NA	4.91	NA
Zambia	6.40	4.47	18.41
Zimbabwe	29.62	20.73	108.11

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 2GB 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 (May-Jun) of 2021.

In this basket no data was available for Eritrea, Iran, and Marshall Islands.

Gross National Income (GNI) per capita data and PPP conversion factors are from the World Bank World Development Indicators, 2020 (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 2018), 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 (2018 or later) GNI data was available for Andorra, Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, Cuba, Eritrea, French Polynesia, Gibraltar, Greenland, Iran, Marshall Islands, Monaco, San Marino, South Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Taiwan, province of China and Yemen.

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 reference exchange rates are based on 2021 Q2 average – or Q1 when Q2 was not available (extracted 9.11.2021) 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).

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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