Fixed broadband subscriptions in World
The world had 20.1 fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 2005.
World is a group: All economies covered by the World Bank. The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
World, 2025
20.1
Change from 2024
+0.8per 100 people
European Union, 2022
38.7 per 100 people
Fixed broadband subscriptions in World 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 | World | European Union |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20.1 per 100 people | – |
| 2024 | 19.3 per 100 people | – |
| 2023 | 18.6 per 100 people | – |
| 2022 | 17.7 per 100 people | 38.7 per 100 people |
| 2021 | 16.7 per 100 people | 37.9 per 100 people |
| 2020 | 15.6 per 100 people | 36.8 per 100 people |
| 2019 | 14.7 per 100 people | 35.6 per 100 people |
| 2018 | 14.0 per 100 people | 34.8 per 100 people |
| 2017 | 13.5 per 100 people | 33.8 per 100 people |
| 2016 | 12.2 per 100 people | 32.6 per 100 people |
| 2015 | 11.3 per 100 people | 31.5 per 100 people |
| 2014 | 10.1 per 100 people | 30.3 per 100 people |
| 2013 | 9.7 per 100 people | 29.2 per 100 people |
| 2012 | 9.2 per 100 people | 28.2 per 100 people |
| 2011 | 8.6 per 100 people | 27.3 per 100 people |
| 2010 | 7.6 per 100 people | 25.8 per 100 people |
| 2009 | 6.9 per 100 people | 24.3 per 100 people |
| 2008 | 6.1 per 100 people | 22.1 per 100 people |
| 2007 | 5.2 per 100 people | 19.7 per 100 people |
| 2006 | 4.3 per 100 people | 15.8 per 100 people |
| 2005 | 3.4 per 100 people | 11.6 per 100 people |
| 2004 | – | 7.9 per 100 people |
| 2003 | – | 4.8 per 100 people |
| 2002 | – | 2.9 per 100 people |
| 2001 | – | 1.5 per 100 people |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of +0.8 from 19.3 per 100 people in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 11.3 per 100 people, the figure has changed by +8.8.