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Intercontinental
internet bandwidth
(2019; gigabits per second)
China
54 %
Pacific island
small states
33 %
India
34 %
Sub-Saharan
Africa
25%
#10 India
18 million
#3 Japan
41 million
#9 South Korea
21 million
#4 Germany
34 million
#7 France
29 million
#5 Russia
32 million
#1 China
407 million
SOURCES:
INTERCONTINENTAL INTERNET BANDWIDTH &
CABLE MAP: TELEGEOGRAPHY
NUMBER OF FIXED BROADBAND CONNECTIONS:
WORLD BANK
EUROPE
MIDDLE
EAST
AFRICA
LATIN
AMERICA
US &
CANADA
ASIA
OCEANIA
LATINAMERICA–US & CANADA
36 ,84 8
ASIA–US & CANADA
21,5 08
ASIA–EUROPE
13, 889
EUROPE–US & C ANADA
21,442
EUROPE–MIDDLEEAST
20 ,75 7