Interactive map

Using the map

Countries are colour-coded by the average price of one gigabyte (1GB) of mobile data. As you can see, this paints an interesting picture, with a lot of the countries where mobile data is cheapest in and around the former USSR, and with some of the most expensive in North America, Africa and Western Europe.

Hovering over an individual country will bring up its associated data. This includes country name, its ranking out of the 228 countries measured, its cheapest available 1GB of data, its most expensive 1GB of data, how many plans were measured to create the average, and on what day the snapshot was taken.

Why some countries are missing data

Unlike our measurements of worldwide broadband speed and worldwide broadband pricing, where lack of fixed-line infrastructure meant significant gaps, mobile data provision is near-ubiquitous. However, there are still some countries or territories where either no provision exists, there exists only 2G infrastructure, providing only calls and/or SMS texts, or the data simply isn't available. And there are countries and regions where problems with the currency do not allow for useful comparison.

Those countries and territories are: Cook Islands, Christmas Island, Eritrea, North Korea, Marshall Islands, St. Pierre and Miquelon, South Sudan, Tuvalu, Venezuela, Wallis and Futuna, Congo (Democratic Republic of), Vatican City (Holy See), Venezuela and Zimbabwe. You can find the reasons behind the exclusion of each of these countries in the second tab of the downloadable data.

Related research

Other connectivity-focused data published by Cable.co.uk and various data partners are as follows:

The Worldwide broadband speed league by Cable.co.uk in association with M-Lab, a partnership between New America's Open Technology Institute, Google Inc., Princeton University's PlanetLab, and other supporting partners.

The worldwide broadband price comparison by Cable.co.uk.