Australia’s digital wellbeing ranking drops: Research

October 15, 2022 10:00 AM AEDT | By Sonal Goyal

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Digital well-being ranking of Australia

Australia’s internet quality ranking – 58
E-infrastructure ranking – 22
E-security ranking – 43
E-government ranking – 7
Internet affordability ranking – 10

Talking in detail about Australia’s internet quality, the study revealed that mobile internet in the nation is two times faster than in New Zealand, while broadband is two times slower. In comparison to previous year, mobile internet speed has enhanced by 17.6% and fixed broadband speed by 4.4%.

Compared to global standards, the internet is very affordable in Australia. The residents can get hands on 1GB of mobile internet in the nation for 19 seconds of work every month. This is 12 times lesser than New Zealand.

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The study revealed that broadband affordability has dropped. Reportedly, people have to work additional six minutes to afford broadband internet in 2022. Considering the inflation level, pressure has been created on low-income households that require the internet.

Summary of countries with worst and bet digital well-being ranking

In 2022, Israel ranks first in digital quality of life, and Denmark holds second place. Germany achieved the third rank. Talking about the top ten countries in the ranking, seven out of ten nations are in Europe.

The bottom five countries are Congo DR, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Mozambique and Yemen (not in the same sequence).

In America, the US has the highest digital well-being. In Asia, Israel gets the lead. South Africa offers the highest quality of digital well-being among African countries. In Oceania this year, New Zealand has outperformed Australia in a range of digital areas.

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