In comparison, much of India’s population relies on mobile data to get online, fuelling demand and hence keeping prices low.Ĭountries can be categorised using a mixture of these four archetypes Israel has been a global leader in the provision of 5G and continues to top the global table when it comes to the price of data as well. Italy offers the cheapest mobile data in Western Europe and also maintains the infrastructure in San Marino. The five cheapest countries in terms of the average cost of 1GB of mobile data are Israel (USD 0.04), Italy (USD 0.12), San Marino (USD 0.14), Fiji (USD 0.15), and India (USD 0.17).Ĭonversely to the most expensive, only one of these countries is an island, and none of them are located in Sub-Saharan Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa is the second-most expensive region in the world for mobile data generally, while island nations also tend to be among the most expensive.
Two of the five are located in Sub-Saharan Africa, and four of five are island nations.
The similarities between these five nations are both striking and obvious. The five most expensive countries in terms of the average cost of 1GB of mobile data are Saint Helena (USD 41.06), the Falkland Islands (USD 38.45), São Tomé and Príncipe (USD 29.49), Tokelau (USD 17.88) and Yemen (USD 16.58). As does our annual energy tracker, which measures the cost of 1Kwh of electricity in just about every country in the world.įive most expensive countries in the world The worldwide broadband price comparison by .uk looks at broadband packages in a similar way to this study. We also undertook a study of global network speeds during Covid 19 lockdown periods in conjunction with the Oxford Covid Lockdown Stringency Tracker. The Worldwide broadband speed league by .uk in association with M-Lab, a partnership between New America's Open Technology Institute, Google Inc., Princeton University's PlanetLab, and other supporting partners. Other connectivity-focused data published by .uk and various data partners are as follows: You can find the reasons behind the exclusion of each of these countries in the second tab of the downloadable data. This year's excluded countries are: Christmas Island, Eritrea, North Korea, Marshall Islands, Vatican City (Holy See), Wallis and Futuna, Congo (Democratic Republic of), Niue, and Svalbard and Jan Mayen. And there are countries and regions where problems with its currency do not allow for useful comparison. However, there are still some countries or territories where either no provision exists, there exists only 2G infrastructure, providing only calls and/or SMS texts, or the data simply isn't available. Unlike our measurements of worldwide broadband speed and worldwide broadband pricing, where lack of fixed-line infrastructure meant significant gaps, mobile data provision is near-ubiquitous. This includes country name, its ranking out of the 233 countries measured, its cheapest available 1GB of data, its most expensive 1GB of data, how many plans were measured to create the average, and on what day the snapshot was taken. Hovering over an individual country will bring up its associated data. As you can see, this paints an interesting picture, with a wide range of countries where mobile data is cheapest, but with some of the most expensive found predominantly in the remote island nations of Africa and South America. Countries are colour-coded by the average price of one gigabyte (1GB) of mobile data.
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