Nigeria Drops 86th In Overall Digital Wellbeing – Study

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Nigeria is now ranked 86th in the world in digital wellbeing, dropping from 82nd position since last year’s edition, research conducted by Surfshark has shown.

Surfshark is a VPN service company located in the Netherlands. It is a subsidiary of Nord Security, the parent company of NordVPN. Surfshark offers products such as a virtual private network service, a data leak detection system, and a private search tool.

The study, ‘Surfshark’s Digital Quality of Life Index 2022’, covers 92 per cent of the global population and indexes 117 countries by looking at five fundamental pillars of digital life – Internet affordability, internet quality, e-infrastructure, e-security, and e-government.

It reveals that Nigeria’s Internet quality, Internet speed, stability, and growth rank 99th in the world and is 26 per cent worse than the global average.

Since last year, mobile Internet speed in Nigeria has improved by 10.8 per cent or 2.5 Megabits per second (Mbps), and fixed broadband speed has grown by 15.9 per cent or 2.6 Mbps, the study disclosed, adding the country’s Internet affordability ranks 114th in the world.

“To afford mobile Internet, Nigerians have to work 183 times more (15 min/month) than Israeli citizens, for whom the most affordable 1GB package costs only 5 s of work monthly. Meanwhile, fixed broadband costs Nigerian citizens around 36 hours 13 minutes of their precious working time each month,” it indicates.

Compared to South Africa, Nigeria’s mobile Internet is two times slower, while broadband is three times slower, Surfshark’s research also indicated.

According to the study, out of all index pillars, Nigeria’s weakest spot is Internet affordability, which needs to improve by 13970 per cent to match the best-ranking country’s result (Israel’s).

On the global stage, seven out of 10 highest-scoring countries are in Europe, which has been the case for the past three years.

Israel ranks 1st in DQL 2022 pushing Denmark to second place after its two-year lead; Germany ranks 3rd, and France and Sweden round up the top five of the 117 evaluated nations, while Congo DR, Yemen, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Cameroon are the bottom five countries, it added

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