Uzbekistan on 1.37 Mbits/s speed is now ranked as having the 181st fastest internet in the world in the "Global League" rankings created by an online website builder review platform.
Taiwan tops in the world with an average download speed of 85 megabits per second (Mbps). With such blistering speed, the researchers estimated web users in Taiwan on average can download a five-gigabyte movie in just eight minutes.
Trailing Taiwan was Singapore in second place, with the British island of Jersey, Sweden, Denmark, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Norway rounding out the top 10. Researchers found that 18 of the 25 countries with the fastest internet speeds were in Europe, while the average internet speed in the world has increased from 9 Mbps in 2017 to 11 Mbps in 2019.
The results of the study were compiled from speed tests submitted by people from around the globe. The authors claimed that "billions of tests" were analyzed to generate the Global League rankings.
One of the admitted pitfalls of their methodology was that many web users tend to run speed tests only when they are having a problem rather than when everything is running smoothly. Such problems could be the result of slow WiFi or issues with the connection in their home instead of the actual speed generally available in a given country.
