The grand duchy’s ranking has risen from 33rd place in the 2017 to consistently feature in the top 10 since 2018. With an average download speed of 131,95Mbps, Luxembourg is eighth in the latest rankings, squeezed between Taiwan in seventh (at 135,88Mbps) and Japan in ninth (122,33Mbps).
The five countries with the fastest internet in the world are Macau (262.74Mbps), Jersey (256.59Mbps), Iceland (216.56Mbps), Liechtenstein (166.22Mbps) and Gibraltar (159.90Mbps).
The survey tracks broadband speed measurements in 220 countries and territories. Luxembourg’s neighbours do not fare so well. France is 10th, but Belgium is only 24th and Germany placed 33rd.
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The slowest countries include Turkmenistan (0.77Mbps), the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (0.94Mbps),Yemen (0.97Mbps), Guinea-Bissau (0.98Mbps) and Afghanistan (0.98Mbps).
“The good news is that the global average speed continues rising fast,” say the authors of the survey. Indeed, over the past 12 months average global broadband speed rose by 15% to stand at 34.79Mbps. Back in 2017 it was just 7.40Mbps.