Global test finds Malta has Europe’s third-slowest broaband

Malta has ranked 48th in a worldwide test of broadband speeds (view table below).

The global test was compiled by Cable.co.uk using data collected by research group M-Lab, a partnership between New America’s Open Technology Institute, Google Open Source Research and Princeton University’s PlanetLab.

More than 63 million speed tests were carried out across the world in the 12 months up to May 2017 as part of the study.

Malta logged an average speed of 10.17Mbps.

Top-ranking Singapore, with an average speed of 55.13Mbps, is fast enough to download a 7.5GB film in 18 minutes and 34 seconds.

In Malta, that same film would take over one hour and 40 minutes to download.

There were 25 EU member states ahead of Malta in the ranking, with only Cyprus and Greece registering slower speeds.Global test finds Malta has Europe’s third-slowest broaband.

Ranking	Country	Mean Download Speed	Number of Distinct Ips	Total Number of tests	Time to download an HD movie (7.5GB) DD:HH:MM:SS
1	Singapore	55.13	12,959	50,940	00:00:18:34
2	Sweden	40.16	28,947	90,278	00:00:25:30
3	Taiwan	34.4	19,216	35,952	00:00:29:46
4	Denmark	33.54	19,760	72,472	00:00:30:32
5	Netherlands	33.52	65,527	223,203	00:00:30:33
6	Latvia	30.36	8,497	20,014	00:00:33:43
7	Norway	29.13	13,583	36,421	00:00:35:09
8	Belgium	27.37	35,633	77,287	00:00:37:25
9	Hong Kong	27.16	10,355	30,016	00:00:37:42
10	Switzerland	26.93	17,085	53,961	00:00:38:01
11	Lithuania	25.12	12,353	32,260	00:00:40:46
12	Japan	24.47	71,444	173,052	00:00:41:51
13	Estonia	24.11	7,768	16,466	00:00:42:28
14	Jersey	23.3	1,438	3,464	00:00:43:57
15	Hungary	23.16	150,687	371,570	00:00:44:12
16	Korea, Republic of	22.9	124,126	329,329	00:00:44:43
17	Portugal	21.72	31,161	78,413	00:00:47:08
18	Romania	21.33	68,672	142,829	00:00:48:00
19	Finland	20.9	13,853	29,763	00:00:48:59
20	Macau	20.52	875	1,678	00:00:49:54
21	United States	20	9,053,165	45,415,275	00:00:51:13
22	Spain	19.6	141,699	273,040	00:00:52:15
23	Slovakia	18.85	23,656	103,960	00:00:54:19
24	Germany	18.8	114,572	221,430	00:00:54:28
25	Slovenia	18.37	11,937	25,811	00:00:55:45
26	Canada	18.03	1,088,007	4,037,647	00:00:56:48
27	Bulgaria	17.54	19,331	51,568	00:00:58:23
28	Czech Republic	17.31	43,430	284,965	00:00:59:09
29	Thailand	16.85	84,617	158,088	00:01:00:46
30	New Zealand	16.6	163,705	456,874	00:01:01:42
31	United Kingdom	16.51	354,329	950,846	00:01:02:01
32	Monaco	16.13	331	750	00:01:03:29
33	Luxembourg	15.52	3,650	10,889	00:01:05:59
34	Austria	15.26	30,390	62,954	00:01:07:05
35	Poland	14.88	90,957	202,465	00:01:08:48
36	Ireland	13.92	26,960	70,280	00:01:13:34
37	France	13.43	186,990	441,419	00:01:16:16
38	Gibraltar	13.18	812	1,361	00:01:17:42
39	Cayman Islands	13.15	1,250	3,185	00:01:17:53
40	Croatia	12.57	18,997	33,557	00:01:21:27
41	Serbia	12.25	16,783	32,843	00:01:23:34
42	Andorra	12.07	245	365	00:01:24:52
43	Russian Federation	11.59	557,040	1,544,834	00:01:28:19
44	Liechtenstein	11.4	105	200	00:01:29:51
45	Moldova, Republic of	10.75	9,463	25,983	00:01:35:13
46	Italy	10.71	307,170	602,244	00:01:35:36
47	Iceland	10.55	4,057	11,088	00:01:37:02
48	Malta	10.17	4,553	9,056	00:01:40:42
49	Bahamas	10.06	987	5,442	00:01:41:49
50	Isle of Man	9.01	835	1,385	00:01:53:39
51	Kenya	8.83	3,636	12,526	00:01:55:55
52	Guernsey	8.76	2,723	9,779	00:01:56:57
53	Cyprus	8.24	7,251	20,825	00:02:04:16
54	Ukraine	8.18	145,876	454,384	00:02:05:08
55	Australia	7.7	894,225	2,430,045	00:02:12:57
56	Mexico	7.59	64,822	143,386	00:02:14:53
57	Greece	7.56	64,700	119,931	00:02:15:30
58	Faroe Islands	7.48	150	285	00:02:16:58
59	Macedonia	7.34	5,094	8,640	00:02:19:28
60	Israel	7.2	22,218	47,906	00:02:22:11
61	Bosnia and Herzegovina	7	5,659	9,614	00:02:26:19
62	Turks and Caicos Islands	6.74	183	379	00:02:31:55
63	Malaysia	6.69	38,881	68,196	00:02:33:03
64	Belarus	6.68	44,434	88,995	00:02:33:22
65	Barbados	6.62	705	2,018	00:02:34:38
66	Jamaica	6.6	2,194	5,667	00:02:35:11
67	Puerto Rico	6.44	5,179	13,452	00:02:38:57
68	Dominican Republic	6.22	6,667	12,981	00:02:44:41
69	Bermuda	5.94	874	3,468	00:02:52:24
70	Georgia	5.86	3,483	8,981	00:02:54:42
71	Montenegro	5.85	1,820	4,940	00:02:55:07
72	Seychelles	5.84	310	1,653	00:02:55:21
73	Virgin Islands, British	5.49	184	408	00:03:06:41
74	Vietnam	5.46	25,401	45,470	00:03:07:39
75	Indonesia	5.19	30,321	67,841	00:03:17:29
76	Belize	5.14	469	2,225	00:03:19:03
77	Virgin Islands, U.S.	5.14	220	1,950	00:03:19:24
78	Albania	4.67	4,783	13,997	00:03:39:15
79	Morocco	4.38	12,464	17,834	00:03:53:40
80	South Africa	4.36	43,981	93,440	00:03:54:54
81	United Arab Emirates	4.17	27,313	56,415	00:04:05:39
82	Kazakhstan	4	53,166	105,140	00:04:15:53
83	Turkey	3.96	84,325	151,727	00:04:18:39
84	Qatar	3.89	5,347	11,385	00:04:23:14
85	Sri Lanka	3.83	6,520	8,764	00:04:27:10
86	Brunei Darussalam	3.83	1,912	4,345	00:04:27:31
87	Philippines	3.69	57,841	150,121	00:04:37:52
88	Tunisia	3.5	11,866	21,519	00:04:52:23
89	Madagascar	3.49	1,402	2,562	00:04:53:15
90	Honduras	3.47	1,248	4,007	00:04:55:26
91	Guatemala	3.31	2,354	6,795	00:05:09:50
92	Armenia	3.29	4,744	12,037	00:05:11:08
93	Trinidad and Tobago	3.28	3,401	10,979	00:05:12:17
94	Greenland	3.15	130	218	00:05:24:56
95	Nigeria	3.15	3,397	7,241	00:05:25:27
96	Bahrain	3.13	4,057	6,468	00:05:27:18
97	Aruba	3.12	421	931	00:05:28:42
98	Cambodia	3.1	2,997	6,949	00:05:29:59
99	Saudi Arabia	3.06	62,833	104,497	00:05:34:57
100	Jordan	2.98	5,827	8,813	00:05:43:24
101	Dominica	2.68	246	512	00:06:22:32
102	Azerbaijan	2.67	5,295	10,100	00:06:23:20
103	Haiti	2.62	839	1,463	00:06:30:51
104	Oman	2.61	4,265	6,365	00:06:32:23
105	Zimbabwe	2.49	697	1,700	00:06:50:34
106	Zambia	2.45	971	2,901	00:06:58:05
107	El Salvador	2.34	1,316	3,345	00:07:18:02
108	Panama	2.3	2,645	12,423	00:07:25:19
109	Martinique	2.3	896	2,236	00:07:25:36
110	Ghana	2.3	1,937	4,076	00:07:26:11
111	New Caledonia	2.23	1,194	2,272	00:07:40:08
112	Guam	2.22	358	1,310	00:07:40:53
113	Kuwait	2.21	8,699	15,762	00:07:44:01
114	Colombia	2.12	19,909	41,700	00:08:02:25
115	Liberia	2.12	115	327	00:08:03:18
116	Uganda	2.12	563	1,189	00:08:04:00
117	Rwanda	2.11	359	849	00:08:05:02
118	Myanmar	2.09	1,423	4,923	00:08:09:57
119	India	2.06	226,103	463,530	00:08:16:20
120	Cape Verde	2	272	536	00:08:32:04
121	Curaçao	1.99	527	2,134	00:08:33:54
122	Saint Lucia	1.98	174	331	00:08:36:09
123	Palestinian Territory	1.96	2,261	3,613	00:08:43:33
124	Laos	1.94	578	1,437	00:08:49:05
125	Antigua and Barbuda	1.86	157	466	00:09:10:15
126	Namibia	1.81	1,618	2,320	00:09:26:07
127	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1.72	106	508	00:09:56:19
128	Chile	1.67	15,775	32,800	00:10:11:45
129	Guadeloupe	1.63	1,364	2,772	00:10:27:46
130	Maldives	1.62	758	1,668	00:10:32:13
131	Iraq	1.6	20,302	47,629	00:10:38:02
132	Mongolia	1.6	853	1,709	00:10:41:49
133	Iran, Islamic Republic of	1.56	29,556	48,924	00:10:54:29
134	China	1.55	57,899	92,226	00:10:58:57
135	Mauritania	1.54	193	236	00:11:03:38
136	Costa Rica	1.53	4,884	15,485	00:11:08:51
137	Mauritius	1.53	2,494	5,119	00:11:09:43
138	Brazil	1.49	233,045	426,877	00:11:26:11
139	Tanzania, United Republic of	1.49	1,590	3,032	00:11:28:54
140	Mozambique	1.45	826	1,424	00:11:46:51
141	Peru	1.41	10,649	23,093	00:12:08:09
142	Turkmenistan	1.4	228	577	00:12:10:59
143	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	1.39	183	387	00:12:16:23
144	Bangladesh	1.34	8,188	41,671	00:12:42:46
145	French Guiana	1.34	511	786	00:12:44:48
146	French Polynesia	1.34	1,149	1,811	00:12:45:14
147	Ethiopia	1.34	631	1,720	00:12:46:40
148	Uruguay	1.31	4,781	6,304	00:13:00:38
149	Ecuador	1.28	6,493	14,764	00:13:18:39
150	Afghanistan	1.27	818	1,900	00:13:25:28
151	Djibouti	1.25	191	328	00:13:39:29
152	Suriname	1.25	805	1,727	00:13:42:23
153	Togo	1.24	236	462	00:13:48:23
154	Fiji	1.24	484	1,295	00:13:48:30
155	Cote D'Ivoire	1.22	2,138	2,895	00:13:58:30
156	Egypt	1.22	32,924	49,372	00:13:59:27
157	Papua New Guinea	1.19	152	673	00:14:23:34
158	Senegal	1.17	1,505	2,280	00:14:31:55
159	Argentina	1.15	36,570	87,269	00:14:49:31
160	Nicaragua	1.14	1,616	3,355	00:14:54:40
161	Algeria	1.11	28,762	42,510	00:15:21:00
162	Sudan	1.1	435	612	00:15:34:12
163	Lebanon	1.07	6,849	18,254	00:15:54:58
164	Botswana	1.07	328	850	00:15:56:37
165	Angola	1.05	1,153	2,502	00:16:16:28
166	Kyrgyzstan	0.98	5,388	16,794	00:17:22:02
167	Cameroon	0.97	893	1,705	00:17:37:48
168	Reunion	0.97	1,767	3,482	00:17:37:51
169	Nepal	0.97	5,842	14,304	00:17:39:00
170	Malawi	0.92	228	437	00:18:30:38
171	Pakistan	0.91	39,367	62,373	00:18:46:28
172	Bolivia	0.91	2,481	5,724	00:18:48:02
173	Guyana	0.89	401	1,323	00:19:09:23
174	Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	0.89	3,145	7,758	00:19:14:00
175	Guinea	0.84	113	211	00:20:17:59
176	Mali	0.84	268	579	00:20:19:30
177	Tajikistan	0.83	467	1,590	00:20:34:16
178	Uzbekistan	0.76	4,584	10,827	00:22:26:41
179	Paraguay	0.75	1,251	2,421	00:22:38:10
180	Benin	0.73	331	837	00:23:27:23
181	Congo	0.72	109	225	00:23:32:37
182	Venezuela	0.7	12,832	25,445	01:00:24:26
183	Syrian Arab Republic	0.68	1,163	1,561	01:01:17:00
184	Vanuatu	0.63	116	261	01:03:00:56
185	Somalia	0.62	284	746	01:03:27:33
186	Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	0.55	294	876	01:07:17:51
187	Burkina Faso	0.49	155	218	01:10:51:46
188	Gabon	0.41	498	830	01:17:54:39
189	Yemen	0.34	1,647	2,327	02:02:02:28
			Total tests	63,039,781

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