Bangladesh has worst mobile internet speed among 110 countries: Report

Bangladesh has the worst mobile internet speed among 110 countries of the world, according to the recently published 2021 Digital Quality of Life index. The overall ranking of Bangladesh is now 103rd among the 110 countries.

In South Asia, India has ranked 59th, Sri Lanka 88th and Pakistan 97th.

Denmark, like last year, ranked first on the list while South Korea and Finland have ranked 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Digital Quality of Life Index is a report published by Surfshark, a globally acclaimed VPN service company. The report indexes 110 countries of the world by looking at five fundamental pillars that define the digital quality of life.

These five pillars are: internet affordability, internet quality, electronic infrastructure, electronic security and electronic government. These pillars consist of 14 (two more than last year) indicators that are interrelated and work together to measure the overall digital quality of life.

This year’s study includes 25 (29%) more countries than DQL 2020, most of which are African countries.

Bangladesh’s rank dropped 25 places from last year and currently, it ranks 30th amongst 32 Asian countries. However, Bangladesh has ranked 16th in internet stability and 43rd in the broadband internet growth category.

According to the report, the reason for Bangladesh’s poor ranking was mostly due to low scores in the ‘Electronic Security’ segment. Moreover, Bangladesh also ranked 96th in the ‘AI Readiness’ category under the ‘Electronic Government’ segment.