Where is the internet fast enough to work on?
Chile leads on median broadband at 366.2 Mbps; Portugal is last of the 15 shown at 257.5 Mbps.
For remote work this is the infrastructure question that matters. A video call needs a few megabits; what breaks a working day is unreliability, and median speed is the best available proxy for whether a country's fixed connections are up to it.
It is a median for the whole country, so a major city will usually beat it and a rural area will usually not reach it. Mobile coverage, which many nomads actually rely on, is a separate matter this figure does not capture.
| # | Country | Median broadband | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇨🇱 Chile | 366.2 Mbps | |
| 2 | 🇪🇸 Spain | 325.8 Mbps | |
| 3 | 🇭🇺 Hungary | 315.3 Mbps | |
| 4 | 🇧🇷 Brazil | 302.9 Mbps | |
| 5 | 🇫🇷 France | 299.8 Mbps | |
| 6 | 🇶🇦 Qatar | 280.8 Mbps | |
| 7 | 🇸🇮 Slovenia | 274.1 Mbps | |
| 8 | 🇰🇷 South Korea | 273.4 Mbps | |
| 9 | 🇺🇸 United States | 271.2 Mbps | |
| 10 | 🇷🇴 Romania | 269.3 Mbps | |
| 11 | 🇲🇹 Malta | 266.4 Mbps | |
| 12 | 🇩🇰 Denmark | 263.5 Mbps | |
| 13 | 🇨🇦 Canada | 262.6 Mbps | |
| 14 | 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago | 258.7 Mbps | |
| 15 | 🇵🇹 Portugal | 257.5 Mbps |
How this is worked out: Median fixed-broadband download speed, Mbps. Estimates for comparison, not advice.
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