Recently the first ever Digital Quality Of Life (DQL) research has been conducted by security experts “Surfshark” to evaluate the digital quality of life of 65 countries. Since we spent so much time online, and as of 2019, the number of people using the internet has grown to 4.3 billion users who on average spent 6 hours browsing the web every day, the quality of digital life we get becomes an important factor for measuring our overall quality of life.

The research was made discussing and evaluating countries based on 6 factors: affordability of connectivity, the speed of connectivity, security of citizens’ personal information, advancement of cybersecurity, e-services offered by government, content that can be accessed in a specific country. The study has been conducted in order to identify key issues in countries which affects our quality of digital life.

6 Factors of Digital Quality of Life