Country Reports

Niue

Highlights

  1. Approximately 80% of the population is an Internet user.
  2. Internet Society rates the choice of Internet service providers as poor.

Internet Usage Permanent link

Internet penetration

200020022004200620082010
80%

of the population used the Internet at least once over a 3-month period

61%
Oceania average

Average download speed

Based on an average of 300 users

  • No data Mbps

    Broadband

  • No data Mbps

    Mobile

Network Infrastructure Permanent link

Mobile 4G and 5G coverage

No data

has access to at least one device with 4G mobile Internet

No data

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.

1

active networks

International connections

Routes to the global Internet

Upstream diversity is

Very Poor

More than 2 connections to the global Internet improves the ability to recover from unexpected events.

Adoption of IPv6

Jul 2023Oct 2023Jan 2024Apr 2024Jul 2024Oct 2024Jan 2025Apr 2025
2%

of users can access online resources using IPv6, the new generation of the Internet Protocol

20%
Oceania average

Market Overview Permanent link

Country-level domain use

206,939

domains registered using .nu, the country code top-level domain (ccTLD).

Market competition

Poor

market competitiveness for Internet customers and end users

Security Permanent link

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

  • 100%
    of IPv4 prefixes protected
  • 100%
    of IPv6 prefixes protected

ROV

Route origin validation filters out route announcements

  • None
    of networks are using ROV to filter out invalid prefixes and networks

DNSSEC status

  • Active

DNSSEC coverage

56%

of all domains under the ccTLD are protected with DNSSEC

7%
Oceania average

Adoption of DNSSEC

33%

of DNS queries are protected by DNSSEC, across all web traffic

70%
Oceania average

Footnotes Permanent link

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).

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