Ghana ranks 88th in the world by Digital Quality of Life
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- 12 Sep 2022
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The fourth annual edition of the Digital Quality of Life Index (DQL) reports that Ghana ranks 88th in the world regarding digital wellbeing. That is out of 117 countries, or 92% of the global population. Out of the five fundamental digital life pillars, Ghana’s worst score is for internet affordability (ranking 109th globally), and the best is for e-security (72nd). Ghana’s e-government services come 82nd, while e-infrastructure and internet quality rank 99th and 102nd, respectively. In the face of waging inflation, fixed broadband internet has become less affordable worldwide for the second year in a row, prying the global digital divide even further.
The DQL study is conducted by the cybersecurity company Surfshark. It evaluates countries based on five fundamental digital wellbeing pillars: internet quality, e-government, e-infrastructure, internet affordability, and e-security. This year, Ghana comes at the lower end of the index, ranking 88th and only making it into the top 90 in the final index. Country ranks 8th in Africa. The country has improved by one position since last year’s edition, rising from 89th to 88th. Out of all index pillars, Ghana’s weakest spot is internet affordability, which needs to improve by 7430% to match the best-ranking country’s result (Israel).
Internet quality in Ghana is very weak, and on a global scale fixed broadband internet is better than mobile
Ghana’s internet quality, considering internet speed, stability, and growth, ranks 102nd in the world and is 29% worse than the global average. Regarding internet speed alone, Ghana’s fixed broadband internet ranks higher than mobile in the global ranking, operating at 54.2 Mbps/s (69th globally). Meanwhile, the mobile internet comes 116th (13.1 Mbps/s).
Compared to Nigeria, Ghana’s mobile internet is 48% slower, while broadband is 3 times faster. Since last year, mobile internet speed in Ghana has decreased by 1.5% (0.2 Mbps), and fixed broadband speed has grown by 4.3% (2.2 Mbps). In comparison, Singapore’s residents enjoyed mobile speeds up to 104 Mbps/s and fixed to as much as 261 Mbps/s – that’s the fastest internet in the world this year.
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