The latest annual Worldwide Broadband Speed League report is out by Cable.co.uk and has this time ranked Uganda 152th in the world in average national broadband speed.
This position puts Uganda ahead of countries like Egypt, Rwanda and Nigeria in Africa. The detailed report looks at more than 557 million broadband speed tests worldwide, revealing the ranking of 221 countries and territories when it comes to average national network speeds.
After the analysis is done, the resulting information is collected by M-Lab, an open-source project with contributors from civil society organizations, educational institutions, and private sector companies.
Liechtenstein is the country with the fastest internet with over 229 Mbps mean download speeds. A connection this fast means it would take you just under three minutes to download a 5GB movie. USA comes in at number 20 with 71 Mbps.
If you are an internet freak and love to stay connected to fast speeds, you will have to avoid South Sudan coming in last with a mean download speed of just 0.58Mbps.
According to the report, the average national broadband speed in Uganda was 5.1 Mbps – a speed at which it would take over 110 minutes to download a 5GB movie.
For the data given by cable.co.uk, we compared the average broadband speeds in Uganda and the rest of the world.
Uganda vs Sub-Saharan Africa
Uganda is among the top 15 –ranking at the 13th position ahead of Tanzania and Ghana out of the 48 countries in the region. Other countries in this region tend to have far lower broadband speeds, with fewer tests and unique IPs measured across the board.
The broadband speed rankings for Sub-Saharan Africa are shown below.
| Position | Country | Mean download speed (Mbps) | Unique IPs tested |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Madagascar | 18.00 | 19,883 |
| 2 | Réunion | 16.35 | 10,126 |
| 3 | South Africa | 14.04 | 1,269,432 |
| 4 | Kenya | 8.20 | 281,603 |
| 5 | Lesotho | 7.43 | 172 |
| 6 | Mauritius | 7.28 | 8,998 |
| 7 | Zimbabwe | 6.92 | 3,076 |
| 8 | Liberia | 6.83 | 475 |
| 9 | Cape Verde | 6.64 | 958 |
| 10 | Senegal | 5.93 | 11,285 |
| 11 | Cote D’Ivoire | 5.55 | 5,420 |
| 12 | Ghana | 5.46 | 26,503 |
| 13 | Uganda | 5.16 | 23,858 |
| 14 | Comoros | 4.85 | 129 |
| 15 | United Republic of Tanzania | 4.54 | 20,582 |
| 16 | Eswatini | 4.51 | 845 |
| 17 | Gabon | 4.37 | 3,433 |
| 18 | Burkina Faso | 4.19 | 2,247 |
| 19 | Angola | 4.15 | 9,311 |
| 20 | Malawi | 4.07 | 802 |
| 21 | Burundi | 4.04 | 602 |
| 22 | Togo | 4.03 | 5,591 |
| 23 | Seychelles | 3.96 | 734 |
| 24 | Namibia | 3.91 | 4,291 |
| 25 | Sierra Leone | 3.86 | 824 |
| 26 | Zambia | 3.84 | 1,458 |
| 27 | Rwanda | 3.80 | 1,493 |
| 28 | Mayotte | 3.52 | 870 |
| 29 | Mozambique | 3.47 | 27,930 |
| 30 | Mali | 3.45 | 1,472 |
| 31 | Nigeria | 3.34 | 86,294 |
| 32 | Guinea | 3.04 | 476 |
| 33 | Botswana | 2.78 | 1,616 |
| 34 | Cameroon | 2.78 | 2,248 |
| 35 | Niger | 2.77 | 667 |
| 36 | Chad | 2.25 | 423 |
| 37 | DR Congo | 2.06 | 1,669 |
| 38 | Republic of the Congo | 2.00 | 580 |
| 39 | São Tomé and Príncipe | 1.99 | 948 |
| 40 | Benin | 1.67 | 1,091 |
| 41 | Guinea-Bissau | 1.61 | 142 |
| 42 | Gambia | 1.60 | 1,502 |
| 43 | Djibouti | 1.50 | 1,332 |
| 44 | Sudan | 1.35 | 448 |
| 45 | Somalia | 1.14 | 1,337 |
| 46 | Ethiopia | 1.12 | 12,608 |
| 47 | Equatorial Guinea | 0.75 | 511 |
| 48 | South Sudan | 0.58 | 172 |
