Highlights
- Internet Society gives South Africa an overall Internet resilience score of 53%, which means it has medium capacity to withstand unexpected faults or challenges to normal operation.
- Internet Society rates the choice of Internet service providers as excellent.
- As of 2023, the population of South Africa was 63,212,384.
- Approximately 75% of the population is an Internet user.
- In South Africa, there are 29 data centers and there are 11 active IXPs.
Internet Usage
Internet penetration
of the population used the Internet at least once over a 3-month period
Average download speed
Based on an average of 300 users
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43.43 Mbps
Broadband
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47.92 Mbps
Mobile
Average Internet cost
of average income (GNI) is needed to cover a low-consumption basket, using at least 3G technology.
Network Infrastructure
Mobile 4G and 5G coverage
has access to at least one device with 4G mobile Internet
has access to at least one device with 5G mobile Internet
Active networks
The building blocks of the Internet, identified by Autonomous System (AS) numbers.
active networks
International connections
Routes to the global Internet
Upstream diversity is
More than 2 connections to the global Internet improves the ability to recover from unexpected events.
Adoption of IPv6
of users can access online resources using IPv6, the new generation of the Internet Protocol
Market Overview
Data centers
Number of data centers in operation
active data centers
Internet Exchange Points
IXPs in South Africa
active networks connect via an IXP
Total number of IXP members in South Africa
Locally cached content
of the top 1000 websites in South Africa can be accessed through an in-country server or cache
Top Internet service providers
Top Internet Service Providers (ISPs) by market share
- Telkom-Internet: 17%
- VODACOM-: 12%
- MTNNS-1: 10%
- INTERNET-SOLUTIONS: 8%
- RAIN-GROUP-HOLDINGS: 8%
Digital public services rating
The UN's measure of a country's e-government ecosystem readiness
Country-level domain use
domains registered using .za, the country code top-level domain (ccTLD).
Market competition
market competitiveness for Internet customers and end users
Security
Global Cybersecurity Index
Estimates the ability of a country or economy to prevent and manage cyber incidents
78 / 100
Routing security practices
The use of resource public key infrastructure (RPKI), which connects IP prefixes to the correct autonomous system (AS)
ROA
Route origin authorization uses a cryptographic signature to certify network announcements
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32%of IPv4 prefixes protected
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14%of IPv6 prefixes protected
ROV
Route origin validation filters out route announcements
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7%of networks are using ROV to filter out invalid prefixes and networks
DNSSEC status
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Active
DNSSEC coverage
of all domains under the ccTLD are protected with DNSSEC
Adoption of DNSSEC
of DNS queries are protected by DNSSEC, across all web traffic
Footnotes
The geographic boundaries and country names shown do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Internet Society concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area of its authorities. Regions and Sub-Regions are taken from the UN Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use (Series M, No. 49).
Pulse uses the most recent possible data from international sources. For some indicators in Pulse, the source data may be updated more frequently. For more information on how often we update individual data points, see the Indicator page.