
Telecommunication in Ivory Coast
Compared to the United States, Ivory Coast has a slight downturn in the development of telecommunications. Under the country code +225, there were a total of 44.83 million connections in 2021. Among them were 44.56 million mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.6 per person. In the US, this figure is 1.1 mobile phones per person.With about 9,115 webhosts, Ivory Coast is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 1,493 of these, or about 16 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
With an average download speed of 38.33 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Ivory Coast ranks 101st in an international comparison. The upload rate of only 10.62 Mbit/second was significantly lower (119th place).In mobile internet, i.e., on tablets and smartphones, Ivory Coast comes 106th with a download speed of 17.95 Mbit/second. The upload speed of around 9 Mbit was only enough for 107th 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 Ivory Coast from 1990 - 2019
Broadband internet in Ivory Coast 2003 - 2021

Landlines 1990 - 2021
Mobile phones 1990 - 2021
Distribution in 2021 | Ivory Coast Total | Ivory Coast percent | USA Total | USA percent |
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Broadband users | 335,041.00 | 1.22 % | 127.03 m | 38.27 % |
Landlines | 265,513.00 | 0.97 % | 97.11 m | 29.26 % |
Mobile cellulars | 44.56 m | 162.17 % | 361.62 m | 108.96 % |