Fixed broadband subscriptions in South Asia
South Asia had 4.3 fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 2001.
South Asia is a group: World Bank region. The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
South Asia, 2025
4.3
Change from 2024
+0.4per 100 people
World, 2025
20.1 per 100 people
Fixed broadband subscriptions in South Asia over time
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The chart shows a calculation from the published values. The table below keeps the published values.
Subscriptions per 100 people. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | South Asia | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.3 per 100 people | 20.1 per 100 people |
| 2024 | 3.9 per 100 people | 19.3 per 100 people |
| 2023 | 3.5 per 100 people | 18.6 per 100 people |
| 2022 | 3.1 per 100 people | 17.7 per 100 people |
| 2021 | 2.6 per 100 people | 16.7 per 100 people |
| 2020 | 2.2 per 100 people | 15.6 per 100 people |
| 2019 | 1.7 per 100 people | 14.7 per 100 people |
| 2018 | 1.7 per 100 people | 14.0 per 100 people |
| 2017 | 1.6 per 100 people | 13.5 per 100 people |
| 2016 | 1.6 per 100 people | 12.2 per 100 people |
| 2015 | 1.4 per 100 people | 11.3 per 100 people |
| 2014 | 1.2 per 100 people | 10.1 per 100 people |
| 2013 | 1.1 per 100 people | 9.7 per 100 people |
| 2012 | 1.0 per 100 people | 9.2 per 100 people |
| 2011 | 0.9 per 100 people | 8.6 per 100 people |
| 2010 | 0.8 per 100 people | 7.6 per 100 people |
| 2009 | 0.5 per 100 people | 6.9 per 100 people |
| 2008 | 0.3 per 100 people | 6.1 per 100 people |
| 2007 | 0.2 per 100 people | 5.2 per 100 people |
| 2006 | 0.2 per 100 people | 4.3 per 100 people |
| 2005 | 0.1 per 100 people | 3.4 per 100 people |
| 2004 | 0.0 per 100 people | – |
| 2003 | 0.0 per 100 people | – |
| 2002 | 0.0 per 100 people | – |
| 2001 | 0.0 per 100 people | – |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of +0.4 from 3.9 per 100 people in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 1.4 per 100 people, the figure has changed by +2.9.
- The figure for the world in 2025 was 20.1 per 100 people.