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Fast and cheap
11 of the 137 countries reach 150 Mbps with an index of 40 or lower: Chile, Vietnam, Thailand, Peru, Brazil, China, Colombia, Jordan, Malaysia, Ecuador and Moldova.
Fast and cheap
11 countries pair broadband of 150 Mbps or more with a cost of living of 40 or lower
Every country with both figures. Median fixed broadband speed up the side, Numbeo's cost of living index across, cheaper to the right. The shaded corner is what a remote worker is after: 150 Mbps or more and an index of 40 or lower, where New York is 100.
- Fast and cheap
- Fast but dear
- Cheap but slow
- Every other country
Chile: 338 Mbps at a cost of living index of 39.0, the fastest of the 11 in the corner.
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Source: Ookla Speedtest Global Index, 2025; Numbeo, 2026. geo-reality.com
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Fast but dear
18 countries have a median of 250 Mbps or more. 9 of them score above 60 on cost of living: Singapore, France, Iceland, the United States, Denmark, Switzerland, Israel, Canada and South Korea.
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Cheap but slow
28 countries score 30 or lower on cost of living. 16 of them have a median under 50 Mbps: Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Kenya, Pakistan, Tunisia, Tanzania, Iran, Uganda, Zambia, Madagascar, Nigeria, Tajikistan, Rwanda, Iraq and Indonesia. Each speed is the national median.
64 countries not plotted, and why
The chart plots only countries with both figures from the sources below. A missing figure stays missing; we don't fill gaps. Countries without a complete pair:
- Andorra (no speed figure)
- Antigua and Barbuda (no cost-of-living figure)
- Aruba (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Barbados (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Benin (no cost-of-living figure)
- Bhutan (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Burkina Faso (no cost-of-living figure)
- Burundi (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Cape Verde (no speed figure)
- Central African Republic (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Chad (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Comoros (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Djibouti (no cost-of-living figure)
- Dominica (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Equatorial Guinea (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Eritrea (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Eswatini (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Fiji (no speed figure)
- French Guiana (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- New Caledonia (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- French Polynesia (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Greenland (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Gabon (no cost-of-living figure)
- Gambia (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Guinea (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Guinea-Bissau (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Haiti (no cost-of-living figure)
- Kiribati (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Laos (no cost-of-living figure)
- Lesotho (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Liberia (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Liechtenstein (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Malawi (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Mali (no cost-of-living figure)
- Marshall Islands (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Mauritania (no cost-of-living figure)
- Micronesia (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Monaco (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Nauru (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Niger (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- North Korea (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Palau (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Puerto Rico (no speed figure)
- Papua New Guinea (no speed figure)
- Republic of the Congo (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Curaçao (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis (no cost-of-living figure)
- Saint Lucia (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Samoa (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- San Marino (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- São Tomé and Príncipe (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Seychelles (no speed figure)
- Sierra Leone (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Solomon Islands (no speed figure)
- Somalia (no cost-of-living figure)
- South Sudan (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Sudan (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Timor-Leste (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Togo (no cost-of-living figure)
- Tonga (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Turkmenistan (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Tuvalu (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
- Vanuatu (no cost-of-living figure and no speed figure)
Sources. Fixed broadband: Ookla Speedtest Global Index, median download speed, 2025. Cost of living: Numbeo Cost of Living Index, 2026, which leaves out rent and mortgage payments and sets New York at 100. Numbeo's figures are crowdsourced from its users, so treat small gaps between countries as noise. 137 countries plotted; 64 omitted for missing data. Full methodology →