{"id":18138,"date":"2012-07-20T00:45:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T22:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=18138"},"modified":"2012-07-20T00:51:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T22:51:13","slug":"broadband-penetration-and-gdp-where-sa-ranks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/18138\/broadband-penetration-and-gdp-where-sa-ranks\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadband penetration and GDP: where SA ranks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The OECD recently released its latest broadband statistics, revealing that South Africa ranks lower than all OECD countries when looking at broadband penetration and GDP.<\/p>\n

South Africa currently has 827,091 fixed broadband subscribers (ADSL subscribers), translating into a fixed-broadband penetration rate of 1.7% (subscribers per 100 inhabitants). South Africa\u2019s broadband penetration rate is significantly lower than the OECD average of 25.6 subscribers per 100 inhabitants.<\/p>\n

According to the OECD, Switzerland tops the OECD fixed broadband ranking for the first time with 39.9 subscribers per 100 inhabitants, followed closely by the Netherlands (39.1) and Denmark (37.9).<\/p>\n

The following graph shows the broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants based on technology. It should be noted that SA\u2019s number is for March 2012.<\/p>\n

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OECD Fixed (wired) broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, by technology, December 2011<\/p><\/div>\n

Broadband penetration and GDP<\/strong><\/p>\n

The OECD also released its latest broadband penetration and GDP figures, showing that there is a correlation (simple correlation = 0.65) between the GDP of a country and the number of broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants.<\/p>\n

South Africa, with a 1.7% fixed broadband penetration rate and a GDP per capita (USD, PPP) of 11,000, shows a very low broadband subscription rate for its GDP.<\/p>\n

The following graph shows the broadband penetration and GDP for OECD nations.<\/p>\n

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Broadband penetration and GDP<\/p><\/div>\n

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The latest OECD broadband statistics show that South Africa performs poorly when looking at broadband penetration rates and GDP per capita<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[79,58,2720,26,86],"class_list":["post-18138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-adsl","tag-broadband-1","tag-gdp","tag-headline","tag-oecd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18138"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18305,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18138\/revisions\/18305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}