Top 100 Countries by Median Fixed Broadband Download Speed in 2025

Q: Why use the median instead of the average?

The median places one observation in the middle of the country test distribution, so it is less distorted by a small number of ultra-fast lines than an average.

Q: Does fixed broadband mean fibre only?

No. Fixed broadband includes wired access technologies such as fibre, cable, DSL, and related fixed networks, although the highest medians are usually associated with fibre-heavy markets.

Q: Why might my home speed be lower than the national median?

Home results depend on plan quality, router and Wi-Fi conditions, device capability, local congestion, and the technology available at the address. A national median is a benchmark, not a guarantee for every household.

by StatRanker November 25, 2025 5336 68 min read

Digital infrastructure · fixed broadband · Speedtest Global Index

The ranking below updates the broadband-speed snapshot to the latest fully verifiable full-country table available for 2025 and expands the coverage beyond a simple Top 10. The fixed-broadband country listing for October 2025 contains 156 countries and territories, which makes it possible to build a much broader comparison instead of stopping at headline leaders. Across that full snapshot, the median country value is 86.97 Mbps, while the simple average across all listed economies is 112.32 Mbps.

The leaderboard is still dominated by fibre-deep markets and compact, upgrade-friendly territories. But the bigger story is the slope of the distribution: once the ranking moves outside the top cluster, measured performance falls away quickly, and the long tail remains substantial. That is why a full-table view is more useful than a Top 10 alone.

Indicator: median fixed broadband download Unit: Mbps Vintage: 2025-10 Coverage: 156 countries / territories Source family: Speedtest Global Index (fixed)

In this snapshot, Singapore is about 4.7× the 156-economy median, and the average speed across the Top 10 is 328.07 Mbps.

Top 10 countries by median fixed broadband download speed

1Singapore

410.06 Mbps

Singapore remains the benchmark fixed-broadband market: dense fibre coverage, short last-mile distances, and strong retail competition keep the national median at the global frontier.

2United Arab Emirates

382.32 Mbps

The UAE combines very high fibre penetration with aggressive plan upgrades, which helps lift the median well above most other large consumer broadband markets.

3France

349.25 Mbps

France’s large-scale fibre build-out has materially changed its national position, turning it into one of the strongest large-country performers in the fixed ranking.

4Chile

348.41 Mbps

Chile stands out because it pairs rapid FTTH expansion with a competitive market structure that has translated into very high measured consumer speeds.

5Hong Kong

343.36 Mbps

High-rise urban form and deep fibre penetration support very short local loops and strong median performance in one of the world’s densest telecom markets.

6Macau

314.32 Mbps

Macau benefits from compact geography and concentrated infrastructure, which makes it easier to push network upgrades across most of the territory.

7United States

298.38 Mbps

The United States remains the fastest large, highly heterogeneous market in the Top 10, even though its national median still masks substantial local gaps by state, metro area, and access technology.

8Iceland

289.98 Mbps

Iceland’s small population and strong fibre footprint help keep typical fixed performance very high despite challenging geography outside the capital region.

9Thailand

272.65 Mbps

Thailand’s result reflects how quickly competitive fibre markets can move when operators keep raising entry-level tiers and modernising urban access networks.

10Vietnam

271.95 Mbps

Vietnam rounds out the Top 10 with a median that now clearly sits in the global high-speed tier, highlighting rapid network modernisation rather than legacy fixed-line dependence.

Table 1. Top 10 snapshot (fixed broadband, median download, Mbps)

Rank	Country / territory	Median fixed download
1	Singapore	410.06 Mbps
2	United Arab Emirates	382.32 Mbps
3	France	349.25 Mbps
4	Chile	348.41 Mbps
5	Hong Kong	343.36 Mbps
6	Macau	314.32 Mbps
7	United States	298.38 Mbps
8	Iceland	289.98 Mbps
9	Thailand	272.65 Mbps
10	Vietnam	271.95 Mbps

Chart 1. Top 20 countries by median fixed broadband download speed

Singapore — 410.06 Mbps
United Arab Emirates — 382.32 Mbps
France — 349.25 Mbps
Chile — 348.41 Mbps
Hong Kong — 343.36 Mbps
Macau — 314.32 Mbps
United States — 298.38 Mbps
Iceland — 289.98 Mbps
Thailand — 272.65 Mbps
Vietnam — 271.95 Mbps

The top of the table is no longer just about wealthy Western markets. Asia, the Gulf, and a Latin American standout in Chile all sit in the high-300 Mbps zone or close to it.

Methodology

This article uses the country-level fixed broadband median download speed reported for October 2025 by the Speedtest Global Index fixed-broadband ranking. The median is used instead of the average because it is less distorted by a relatively small number of ultra-fast lines and is therefore closer to a “typical measured user experience” within each country. Values are kept in the source unit, Mbps, and preserved to two decimals. The full verified country listing used here covers 156 countries and territories.

The table is treated as a monthly performance snapshot, not a structural census of every broadband connection. Speed-test data are crowdsourced and can be influenced by who chooses to run tests, the quality of in-home Wi-Fi, device capability, service-tier mix, and regional differences inside each country. That means the ranking is highly useful for comparison, but it is not a guarantee of what every address or neighbourhood will receive in practice.

For context beyond the monthly leaderboard, the article also follows OECD evidence on how fixed-broadband performance has improved over time while territorial gaps persist within countries. That broader evidence is used for interpretation only; it does not overwrite the October 2025 country ranking vintage.

What stands out in the 2025 distribution

The first clear pattern is that fibre density still dominates. The countries near the top are almost all places where fibre has become the mainstream fixed technology rather than a premium niche. The second pattern is that compact geographies move faster: city-states, island territories, and small highly urbanised markets can upgrade nationwide infrastructure far more quickly than large states with dispersed populations. The third pattern is that market structure matters. France, Chile, Thailand, and Vietnam show that competition and fast upgrade cycles can push national medians upward even outside the smallest territories.

The long tail is just as important. Once the ranking moves below the middle of the 156-economy list, the pace of decline becomes steep, and many countries are still far away from the practical speeds needed for seamless multi-device cloud usage, 4K streaming, or large-file remote work. The gap between the leader at 410.06 Mbps and the last-ranked country at 3.51 Mbps is enormous, which means fixed-network quality remains one of the clearest markers of digital infrastructure inequality.

What this means for readers

If you are comparing countries for relocation, remote work, digital business, or infrastructure benchmarking, a high national median is a very useful first screen. It often signals modern last-mile technology, decent backhaul capacity, and a retail market where higher tiers are actually being adopted. But a national headline should never be the only input. Local coverage maps, upload performance, latency, stability, and plan pricing can change the real household experience dramatically.

For businesses, the ranking is best read as a proxy for how easy it is to support cloud-heavy workflows, distributed teams, teleconferencing, and large data transfers at scale. For households, it says more about the likelihood of a strong mainstream service tier than about the absolute best package sold in the market. In other words, median speeds are strongest when used as a benchmark for typical quality, not as a substitute for address-level due diligence.

FAQ

Why use the median instead of the average?

The median puts one observation in the middle of the country’s test distribution: half of results are faster and half are slower. That makes it less sensitive to a small number of extremely fast lines than an average would be.

Does “fixed broadband” mean fibre only?

No. Fixed broadband includes wired residential and business access technologies such as fibre, cable, DSL, and related fixed networks. In practice, though, the highest medians are usually associated with markets where fibre has become dominant.

Why did the Top 10 change after the update?

Because the updated full-country snapshot differs from the earlier Top 10 excerpt. In the verified October 2025 full table, the UAE and France move ahead of Chile, which changes the order near the top.

Can a country jump quickly in this ranking?

Yes. When fibre rollout accelerates, retail tiers are upgraded, and more users migrate off older technologies, national medians can move up quite fast over a period of months.

Why might my home speed be lower than the national median?

Your result can depend on your plan, router, Wi-Fi conditions, device, in-home wiring, local congestion, and the technology available at your address. A national median is a country-level benchmark, not a promise for every household.

Does faster download speed automatically mean better internet quality?

No. Upload speed, latency, jitter, reliability, and affordability all matter. A country can rank well on download throughput and still deliver uneven real-time performance or large regional gaps.

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Full 2025 ranking: 156 countries and territories in one embedded HTML table

This block expands the article from a Top 10 headline into the widest verified 2025 fixed-broadband country ranking available in accessible form. Every row is written directly into the HTML, so the ranking remains readable even if JavaScript does not run. The interactive controls only improve browsing: they do not generate the dataset.

The snapshot median across the 156-country list is 86.97 Mbps. In index mode, that median is set to 100.00. A value of 200 means a country is operating at roughly double the snapshot median; a value of 50 means it is at roughly half of it.

Source snapshot: fixed broadband country ranking, 2025-10. With JavaScript disabled, the full table remains visible. With JavaScript enabled, the controls can search, sort, limit visible rows, and toggle between Mbps and the snapshot-median index.

Rank	Country / territory	Median fixed download
1	Singapore	410.06 Mbps471.50
2	United Arab Emirates	382.32 Mbps439.60
3	France	349.25 Mbps401.58
4	Chile	348.41 Mbps400.61
5	Hong Kong	343.36 Mbps394.80
6	Macau	314.32 Mbps361.41
7	United States	298.38 Mbps343.08
8	Iceland	289.98 Mbps333.43
9	Thailand	272.65 Mbps313.50
10	Vietnam	271.95 Mbps312.69
11	Israel	270.69 Mbps311.25
12	Switzerland	266.34 Mbps306.24
13	Romania	261.35 Mbps300.51
14	Taiwan	258.86 Mbps297.64
15	Denmark	256.74 Mbps295.21
16	Spain	255.02 Mbps293.23
17	Canada	245.77 Mbps282.59
18	Peru	235.09 Mbps270.31
19	South Korea	234.07 Mbps269.14
20	Hungary	230.29 Mbps264.79
21	Portugal	227.53 Mbps261.62
22	Kuwait	224.13 Mbps257.71
23	China	222.29 Mbps255.59
24	Japan	219.78 Mbps252.71
25	Netherlands	218.31 Mbps251.02
26	New Zealand	217.32 Mbps249.88
27	Brazil	215.58 Mbps247.88
28	Poland	207.54 Mbps238.63
29	Qatar	203.49 Mbps233.98
30	Luxembourg	201.60 Mbps231.80
31	Lithuania	200.23 Mbps230.23
32	Colombia	199.70 Mbps229.62
33	Jordan	192.49 Mbps221.33
34	Panama	192.18 Mbps220.97
35	Malta	187.47 Mbps215.56
36	Uruguay	187.28 Mbps215.34
37	Sweden	181.27 Mbps208.43
38	Ireland	180.01 Mbps206.98
39	Moldova	164.43 Mbps189.07
40	Norway	161.47 Mbps185.66
41	Malaysia	161.18 Mbps185.33
42	Finland	157.81 Mbps181.45
43	United Kingdom	154.10 Mbps177.19
44	Costa Rica	153.94 Mbps177.00
45	Trinidad and Tobago	148.99 Mbps171.31
46	Bahrain	144.64 Mbps166.31
47	Ecuador	139.77 Mbps160.71
48	Australia	135.31 Mbps155.58
49	Belgium	134.83 Mbps155.03
50	Saudi Arabia	132.66 Mbps152.54
51	Cyprus	130.59 Mbps150.16
52	Slovenia	122.90 Mbps141.31
53	Latvia	120.41 Mbps138.45
54	Austria	108.88 Mbps125.19
55	Philippines	106.71 Mbps122.70
56	Argentina	105.42 Mbps121.21
57	Italy	103.96 Mbps119.54
58	Paraguay	103.51 Mbps119.02
59	Germany	101.08 Mbps116.22
60	San Marino	99.32 Mbps114.20
61	Serbia	99.12 Mbps113.97
62	Croatia	97.87 Mbps112.53
63	Slovakia	97.07 Mbps111.61
64	Montenegro	96.28 Mbps110.70
65	Jamaica	95.58 Mbps109.90
66	Venezuela	95.02 Mbps109.26
67	Estonia	93.69 Mbps107.73
68	Oman	92.69 Mbps106.58
69	Mexico	91.99 Mbps105.77
70	Nicaragua	91.94 Mbps105.71
71	El Salvador	91.46 Mbps105.16
72	Grenada	91.30 Mbps104.98
73	Egypt	91.25 Mbps104.92
74	Russia	89.20 Mbps102.56
75	Ukraine	88.92 Mbps102.24
76	Uzbekistan	88.82 Mbps102.13
77	Czech Republic	87.22 Mbps100.29
78	Bulgaria	87.04 Mbps100.08
79	Albania	86.90 Mbps99.92
80	Saint Kitts and Nevis	86.47 Mbps99.43
81	Belarus	86.12 Mbps99.02
82	Brunei	85.60 Mbps98.42
83	Guatemala	85.29 Mbps98.07
84	Azerbaijan	84.82 Mbps97.53
85	Bahamas	84.08 Mbps96.68
86	Honduras	83.93 Mbps96.50
87	Kyrgyzstan	83.87 Mbps96.44
88	Kosovo	83.61 Mbps96.14
89	Kazakhstan	82.47 Mbps94.83
90	Greece	80.14 Mbps92.15
91	Mongolia	79.62 Mbps91.55
92	Nepal	77.33 Mbps88.92
93	Palestine	74.54 Mbps85.71
94	Armenia	73.95 Mbps85.03
95	Turkey	64.22 Mbps73.84
96	Bangladesh	62.73 Mbps72.13
97	Bolivia	61.89 Mbps71.16
98	Dominican Republic	60.98 Mbps70.12
99	India	60.34 Mbps69.38
100	Mauritius	59.56 Mbps68.48
101	Ivory Coast	59.14 Mbps68.00
102	North Macedonia	55.31 Mbps63.60
103	Morocco	54.52 Mbps62.69
104	Mauritania	53.57 Mbps61.60
105	Haiti	51.86 Mbps59.63
106	Ghana	51.22 Mbps58.89
107	Algeria	50.85 Mbps58.47
108	Laos	50.44 Mbps58.00
109	Cambodia	48.69 Mbps55.98
110	South Africa	48.40 Mbps55.65
111	Belize	48.26 Mbps55.49
112	Burkina Faso	47.76 Mbps54.92
113	DR Congo	47.43 Mbps54.54
114	Georgia	44.03 Mbps50.63
115	Indonesia	42.79 Mbps49.20
116	Iraq	42.21 Mbps48.53
117	Antigua and Barbuda	41.46 Mbps47.67
118	Rwanda	41.02 Mbps47.17
119	Botswana	40.68 Mbps46.77
120	Gabon	40.31 Mbps46.35
121	Cape Verde	40.02 Mbps46.02
122	Zambia	39.74 Mbps45.69
123	Tajikistan	39.57 Mbps45.50
124	Lesotho	36.91 Mbps42.44
125	Bosnia and Herzegovina	36.03 Mbps41.43
126	Togo	35.60 Mbps40.93
127	Zimbabwe	35.38 Mbps40.68
128	Sri Lanka	32.03 Mbps36.83
129	Mozambique	31.97 Mbps36.76
130	Fiji	30.76 Mbps35.37
131	Nigeria	29.73 Mbps34.18
132	Madagascar	28.57 Mbps32.85
133	Myanmar	28.03 Mbps32.23
134	Uganda	27.56 Mbps31.69
135	Yemen	26.38 Mbps30.33
136	Benin	24.46 Mbps28.12
137	Niger	23.28 Mbps26.77
138	Senegal	21.85 Mbps25.12
139	Angola	21.64 Mbps24.88
140	Mali	21.61 Mbps24.85
141	Maldives	20.15 Mbps23.17
142	Tanzania	20.07 Mbps23.08
143	Suriname	20.04 Mbps23.04
144	Iran	19.88 Mbps22.86
145	Somalia	19.36 Mbps22.26
146	Tunisia	18.07 Mbps20.78
147	Pakistan	17.77 Mbps20.43
148	Lebanon	17.47 Mbps20.09
149	Namibia	16.40 Mbps18.86
150	Kenya	15.75 Mbps18.11
151	Cameroon	12.82 Mbps14.74
152	Libya	10.63 Mbps12.22
153	Ethiopia	10.12 Mbps11.64
154	Afghanistan	4.54 Mbps5.22
155	Cuba	3.67 Mbps4.22
156	Syria	3.51 Mbps4.04

Embedded ranking coverage: 156 rows. Update marker: 2025-10. Source family: Speedtest Global Index fixed broadband. Index mode is a relative display aid, not a share of global traffic.

Chart 2. Rank vs median fixed-broadband speed: the shape of the global drop-off

This scatter chart uses the same table rows and plots rank on the horizontal axis against median fixed download speed on the vertical axis. The chart makes one structural point clear: the frontier group is separated from the middle, and the lower end of the table stretches into a very long tail. That is why a Top 10 headline alone can overstate how close the rest of the world is to the leaders.

Snapshot median across all 156 listed countries and territories: 86.97 Mbps
Leader: Singapore — 410.06 Mbps
Rank 50: Saudi Arabia — 132.66 Mbps
Rank 100: Mauritius — 59.56 Mbps
Last place: Syria — 3.51 Mbps

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Interpretation: what the updated fixed-broadband ranking really signals

A strong national fixed-broadband median is one of the clearest signals that a country has moved beyond patchwork network modernisation and into a phase where high-capacity connectivity is becoming normal for a large share of households and businesses. That matters because fixed networks still carry the heaviest traffic loads for home working, streaming, cloud backup, gaming, enterprise VPN use, and multi-device households. When the median rises, it usually means that the upgrade is no longer confined to a thin premium segment.

At the same time, this ranking should not be mistaken for a universal-service scoreboard. Even in countries near the top, national medians can conceal sharp differences between dense urban zones and peripheral areas, between fibre customers and legacy cable or DSL customers, and between higher-income households and users stuck on older plans or weaker in-home equipment. The headline tells you where a country sits in the global performance league, but not whether service is equally strong for everyone.

The key interpretation is simple: high median speed is best read as a sign of mainstream network quality, not as proof of universal digital inclusion. Speed and access move together in many cases, but they are not the same outcome.

Policy takeaways

Fibre still does the heavy lifting. The top of the ranking is overwhelmingly populated by markets where fibre is either dominant already or clearly becoming the default upgrade path.
Deployment friction matters. Rights-of-way, pole access, building access rules, and civil-works bottlenecks often explain why some countries climb quickly while others stall.
Competition helps translate infrastructure into measured user outcomes. Where operators keep raising mainstream tiers and consumers actually switch to them, the national median improves faster.
The rural problem does not disappear just because the national median rises. OECD evidence shows that fixed performance has improved strongly in recent years, but internal gaps remain material, especially outside metropolitan areas.
Throughput is not the whole quality story. Public dashboards and policy targets should be read together with upload performance, latency, reliability, and affordability rather than Mbps alone.

How to read this ranking responsibly

Use the ranking as a benchmark for typical measured performance. Then validate with local evidence: coverage maps, address-level technology availability, retail pricing, upload tiers, and complaint or outage data where available. For researchers and editors, the most important practice is to keep the vintage explicit. Monthly broadband rankings can change, especially when closely matched countries swap places near the top.

It is also important to remember how speed tests are created. They are user-initiated, device-dependent, and affected by in-home conditions. That does not make them useless; in fact, they are extremely informative at scale. But it does mean they should be interpreted as a real-world performance dataset with behavioural and sampling noise, not as a perfect census of fixed-line capability.

Sources

Ookla Speedtest Global Index — primary source family for country-level fixed-broadband median download rankings.
Ookla Speedtest methodology guide — background on how Speedtest measurements are generated and interpreted.
OECD — Closing Broadband Connectivity Divides for All — structural context on the urban-rural and metro-non-metro quality gaps that remain inside countries.
World Bank — Individuals using the Internet (% of population) — access context that complements speed rankings.
ITU ICT statistics portal — broader telecom and connectivity indicators for penetration, subscriptions, and usage context.
Measurement Lab (M-Lab) — open network-measurement resource that can be used for triangulation alongside Speedtest-based rankings.

The ranking table in this page is built from the latest fully verifiable full-country snapshot available for the 2025 Speedtest fixed-broadband listing. OECD, World Bank, ITU, and M-Lab are used as context sources rather than as substitutes for the monthly ranking vintage.

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