Progress
Fair progress but acceleration needed
Fair progress but acceleration needed

Desired direction: Increase

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Headline data

Fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, by speed
Year Value Units
2018 35.4 Per 100 people
2013 29.0 Per 100 people
2022 39.3 Per 100 people
2010 24.6 Per 100 people
2021 38.8 Per 100 people
2014 30.6 Per 100 people
2012 26.9 Per 100 people
2016 33.4 Per 100 people
2020 37.3 Per 100 people
2017 33.9 Per 100 people
2015 32.0 Per 100 people
2019 36.5 Per 100 people
2011 26.0 Per 100 people

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Unit of Measurement:

Footnote:

Methodological sheet of the indicator available for the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country.

Available indicator

Fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, by speed
Target

17.6 Enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance knowledge-sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved coordination among existing mechanisms, in particular at the United Nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism
Goal

17- Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development
Definition

Number of fixed broadband lines in relation to the number of inhabitants
Theoretical formula \[TLBAF^{t} = \frac{LBAF^{t}}{P^{t}} \cdot 100\]

where:

$LBAF^{t} =$ fixed broadband lines in year $t$

$P^{t} =$ population as of January 1 of the year $t$
Available disaggregations

Access technology

Province
Frequency

Annual
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Indicator calculated using a methodology harmonised across the central statistical bodies of the autonomous communities
Data last updated 2025/05/08
Metadata last updated 2025/06/18

This section provides more information about the United Nations indicator or the European Union Sustainable Development Indicator, such as its rationale, international results, metadata, and other relevant statistics.

Rationale

The Internet has become an increasingly important tool to provide access to information, and can help foster and enhance regional and international cooperation on, and access to, science, technology and innovations, and enhance knowledge sharing.

High-speed Internet access is important to ensure that Internet users have quality access to the Internet and can take advantage of the growing amount of Internet content – including user-generated content –, services and information.

While the number of fixed-broadband subscriptions has increased substantially over the last years and while service providers offer increasingly higher speeds, fixed Internet broadband can vary tremendously by speed, thus affecting the quality and functionality of Internet access.

Many countries, especially in the developing world, have not only a very limited amount of fixed-broadband subscriptions, but also at very low speeds. This limitation is a barrier to the Target 17.6 and the indicator highlights the potential of the Internet (especially through high-speed access) to enhance cooperation, improve access to science, technology and innovation, and share knowledge.

The indicator also highlights the importance of Internet use as a development enabler and helps to measure the digital divide, which, if not properly addressed, will aggravate inequalities in all development domains. Information on fixed broadband subscriptions by speed will contribute to the design of targeted policies to overcome those divides.

Source: United Nations Statistics Division
Comparability between the available indicator and the UN indicator

The available indicator complies with United Nations metadata.
International results

Fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, by speed (per 100 inhabitants) IT_NET_BBND UNSTATS
Link to UN metadata

Metadata 17-6-1.pdf
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