
Telecommunication in the Gambia
Compared to the United States, Gambia is massively lagging behind in the development of telecommunications. Under the country code +220, there were a total of 2.74 million connections in 2021. Among them were 2.68 million mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.0 per person. In the US, this figure is 1.1 mobile phones per person.With about 656 webhosts, Gambia is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 70 of these, or about 11 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
With an average download speed of 6.4 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Gambia ranks 168th in an international comparison. The upload rate was only 3.3 Mbit/second (167th place).The Speedtest Global Index published regularly by Ookla is based on several million individual measurements in October 2022 from 180 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 Gambia from 1990 - 2020
Broadband internet in the Gambia 2004 - 2020
