
Telecommunication in Niger
Compared to the European Union, Niger is massively lagging behind in the development of telecommunications. Under the country code +227, there were a total of 14.30 million connections in 2020. Among them were 14.24 million mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 0.59 per person. In the EU, this figure is 1.2 mobile phones per person.With about 454 webhosts, Niger is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 35 million of these, or about 8 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
With an average download speed of 4.3 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Niger ranked 176th in an international comparison. The upload rate was only 2.8 Mbit/second (169th place). The quality of the Internet, consisting of signal fluctuations (jitter) and latency, is very far ahead at 5th place.In mobile internet, i.e. on tablets and smartphones, Niger comes th with a download speed of 0 Mbit/second. The upload speed of around 0 Mbit was enough for th place.
The Speedtest Global Index published regularly by Ookla is based on several million individual measurements in April 2022 from 181 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% mean that, on average, every inhabitant has more than one connection.
Access to the Internet in Niger from 1990 - 2019
Broadband internet in Niger 2004 - 2020

Landlines 1990 - 2020
Mobile phones 1990 - 2020
Distribution in 2020 | Niger Total | Niger percent | EU Total | EU percent |
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Broadband users | 12,000.00 | 0.05 % | 163.72 m | 36.56 % |
Landlines | 58,000.00 | 0.24 % | 160.15 m | 35.76 % |
Mobile cellulars | 14.24 m | 58.82 % | 540.56 m | 120.71 % |