Fixed broadband subscriptions in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa had 1.1 fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 2005.
Sub-Saharan Africa is a group: World Bank region. The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
Sub-Saharan Africa, 2025
1.1
Change from 2024
+0.3per 100 people
World, 2025
20.1 per 100 people
Fixed broadband subscriptions in Sub-Saharan Africa over time
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Subscriptions per 100 people. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | Sub-Saharan Africa | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.1 per 100 people | 20.1 per 100 people |
| 2024 | 0.8 per 100 people | 19.3 per 100 people |
| 2023 | 0.7 per 100 people | 18.6 per 100 people |
| 2022 | 0.6 per 100 people | 17.7 per 100 people |
| 2021 | 0.5 per 100 people | 16.7 per 100 people |
| 2020 | 0.5 per 100 people | 15.6 per 100 people |
| 2019 | 0.5 per 100 people | 14.7 per 100 people |
| 2018 | 0.4 per 100 people | 14.0 per 100 people |
| 2017 | 0.4 per 100 people | 13.5 per 100 people |
| 2016 | 0.4 per 100 people | 12.2 per 100 people |
| 2015 | 0.4 per 100 people | 11.3 per 100 people |
| 2014 | 0.4 per 100 people | 10.1 per 100 people |
| 2013 | 0.3 per 100 people | 9.7 per 100 people |
| 2012 | 0.2 per 100 people | 9.2 per 100 people |
| 2011 | 0.3 per 100 people | 8.6 per 100 people |
| 2010 | 0.2 per 100 people | 7.6 per 100 people |
| 2009 | 0.1 per 100 people | 6.9 per 100 people |
| 2008 | 0.1 per 100 people | 6.1 per 100 people |
| 2007 | 0.1 per 100 people | 5.2 per 100 people |
| 2006 | – | 4.3 per 100 people |
| 2005 | 0.0 per 100 people | 3.4 per 100 people |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of +0.3 from 0.8 per 100 people in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 0.4 per 100 people, the figure has changed by +0.7.
- The figure for the world in 2025 was 20.1 per 100 people.