
Telecommunication in Saint Lucia
Compared to the United States, Saint Lucia has a slight downturn in the development of telecommunications. Under the country code +1-758, there were a total of 209,805 connections in 2021. Among them were 171,805 mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 0.96 per person. In the US, this figure is 1.1 mobile phones per person.With about one hundred webhosts, Saint Lucia is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 69 of these, or about 69 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
With an average download speed of 80.50 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Saint Lucia ranks 51st in an international comparison. The upload rate of only 25.28 Mbit/second was significantly lower (76th place).The Speedtest Global Index published regularly by Ookla is based on several million individual measurements in February 2023 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 Saint Lucia from 1990 - 2021
Broadband internet in Saint Lucia 2003 - 2021

Landlines 1990 - 2020
Mobile phones 1990 - 2021
Distribution in 2021 | Saint Lucia Total | Saint Lucia percent | USA Total | USA percent |
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Internet users | 140,299.53 | 78.10 % | 304.52 m | 91.75 % |
Broadband users | 38,080.00 | 21.20 % | 125.89 m | 37.93 % |
Mobile cellulars | 171,805.00 | 95.63 % | 361.66 m | 108.97 % |