Australia ranks 11th in the world in broadband use

Stephen Withers
Friday, 19 June 2009 11:53

Business IT - Technology

The Netherlands and Denmark have moved up, with 85 and 82 percent respectively.

For countries with relatively small populations spread over a large land mass, Canada and Australia are travelling well at 76 and 72 percent, putting them in ninth and 11th place.

The US comes in at number 20 on 60 percent, behind the United Arab Emirates, Estonia and Belgium.

Yet several other western European countries appear below the US on Strategy Analytics list, including Germany (58 percent), Ireland (58 percent), Spain (57 percent), Italy (51 percent, despite being presented in some reports as a poster child for IPTV), and Portugal (40 percent).

The last three countries in the ranking are Egypt (3 percent), India (2 percent) and Indonesia (1 percent).

"China, for all the talk of its emerging leadership in all things tech, ranks at number 43 with 21% household penetration," observed Mercer.

"The rural population in China is clearly still way behind leading economies in adoption of PCs and internet access."