
Telecommunication in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Compared to the United States, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is massively lagging behind in the development of telecommunications. Under the country code +242, there were a total of 40.80 million connections in 2021. Among them were 40.80 million mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 0.44 per person. In the US, this figure is 1.1 mobile phones per person.With about 2,515 webhosts, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 345 of these, or about 14 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
With an average download speed of 9.7 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, the Democratic Republic of the Congo ranks 152nd in an international comparison. The upload rate of only 3.0 Mbit/second was significantly lower (167th place).In mobile internet, i.e., on tablets and smartphones, the Congo (Dem. Republic) comes 107th with a download speed of 17.89 Mbit/second. The upload speed of around 9 Mbit was enough for 100th place.
The Speedtest Global Index published regularly by Ookla is based on several million individual measurements in December 2022 from 178 countries.
The following diagrams show the development of the various telephone and internet connections as a percentage of the country's population. Values above 100 percent mean that, on average, every inhabitant has more than one connection.
Access to the internet in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1990 - 2020
Broadband internet in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 2010 - 2020
