Internet Resilience Index
For people to experience the full benefits of access, the Internet itself needs to be able to adapt to challenges. The Pulse Internet Resilience Index (IRI) tracks a range of indicators and assigns a weighted score for each country, measured out of 100. It’s a holistic score that measures how well an Internet connection can withstand things like sudden changes in Internet traffic, suspicious activity, or unexpected outages.
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Infrastructure
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Physical infrastructure for Internet connectivity exists, and is available.
41 / 100global average -
Market Readiness
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The ability of the market to offer affordable prices to consumers by maintaining diversity and competition.
40 / 100global average -
Performance
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Consumers have seamless and reliable Internet services.
44 / 100global average -
Security
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Technologies and best practices support a network’s ability to resist disruptions.
56 / 100global average
Internet Resilience Score
- Asia
- 46 / 100
- Infrastructure 39
- Market Readiness 40
- Performance 49
- Security 57
- Southern Asia
- 43 / 100
- Infrastructure 36
- Market Readiness 38
- Performance 39
- Security 58
Afghanistan
31 / 100
The Internet in Afghanistan is less resilient on average than other countries in Southern Asia, and is low for Asia. It ranks 5th in Southern Asia for security, a category that evaluates the use of technologies and best practices that support a network’s ability to resist disruptions. It ranks 47th in Asia for performance, a category that evaluates how well the network provides seamless and reliable Internet services to consumers.
View country report for Afghanistan
- Infrastructure 31
- Market Readiness 27
- Performance 8
- Security 58
Infrastructure
31
Physical infrastructure for Internet connectivity exists, and is available.
Mobile connectivity 40
Network coverage 42
Country has mobile network coverage (includes 2G, 3G, and 4G). Source: Composite score provided by GSMA
Spectrum allocation 34
Mobile operators have access to spectrum that allows them to offer sufficient services to customers.
Fiber ecosystem 40
Fibre 10km reach 40
The ability of the population to have access to a fiber connection point within 10 kilometers. Source: ITU
Enabling infrastructure 12
Internet Exchange Point (IXP) coverage 23
Shows how well large population centers (defined as more than 300,000 people) are served by IXPs. Sources: Packet Clearing House (PCH), Peering DB
Data center coverage 1
Score measured based on data centers per 10 million population. Source: Data Center Map
Market readiness
27
The ability of the market to offer affordable prices to consumers by maintaining diversity and competition.
Market structure 31
Market competition 54
Calculates the level of competition in the market. This uses the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI). Source: APNIC
Upstream provider diversity 22
Uses the GINI Coefficient to measure the level of inequality when it comes to dependency on upstream connections. Source: Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ)
Affordability 8
Measures the affordability of Internet connectivity for consumers. Source: ITU, A4AI
Traffic localization 24
Peering efficiency 44
RScore that uses the ratio of networks that peer at Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), compared with the total number of networks in a country. Sources: Packet Clearing House (PCH), PeeringDB
Domain count 0
Domains registered using ccTLD. Source: DomainTools
E-Government Development Index Score 21
Score on the United Nations E-Government Development Index (EGDI), which measures readiness for providing digital public services. Source: United Nations
Performance
8
How well the network provides seamless and reliable Internet services to consumers.
Mobile networks 13
Download speeds 4
Download speeds, measured by Ookla speed tests. Source: Ookla
Consistency 23
This measures the network jitter, which shows consistency of speed and performance across networks. Source: Ookla
Responsiveness 26
Measures how quickly content reaches a user. A connection that's responsive is low in latency or lag. Source: Ookla
Upload speeds 7
Upload speeds, measured by Ookla speed tests. Source: Ookla
Fixed networks 1
Responsiveness 0
Measures how quickly content reaches a user. A connection that's responsive is low in latency or lag. Source: Ookla
Consistency 0
This measures the network jitter, which shows consistency of speed and performance across networks. Source: Ookla
Upload speeds 2
Upload speeds, measured by Ookla speed tests. Source: Ookla
Download speeds 1
Download speeds, measured by Ookla speed tests. Source: Ookla
Security
58
Technologies and best practices support a network’s ability to resist disruptions.
Routing hygiene 58
MANRS score 78
An overall score that measures routing security in a country's networks. Source: MANRS Observatory
Upstream connections 37
Shows how well a country's networks are connected with upstream providers. Source: CAIDA
Enabling technologies 56
HTTPS adoption 80
Web pageloads that use HTTPS. Source: Mozilla
IPv6 adoption 1
Users can access online resources using IPv6, the new generation of the Internet Protocol. Sources: Akamai, Facebook, Google, APNIC
Security threat 38
Global Cybersecurity Index Score 5
Estimates the ability of a country or economy to prevent and manage cyber incidents. Source: ITU
DDoS protection 91
Level of protection across networks, preventing DDoS attacks against another country's networks. Source: Cybergreen
Secure Internet servers 29
Number of secure Internet servers per 1 million population. Source: World Bank
Domain name system (DNS) security 74
DNSSEC adoption 100
Shows whether the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) using the extra layer of security known as DNSSEC. Source: ICANN
DNSSEC validation 48
A score showing how well DNS queries are protected by DNSSEC, across all web traffic. Source: APNIC
About the Internet Resilience Index
The Pulse Internet Resilience Index (IRI) draws from a range of data sources, to track some of the key building blocks that underpin the Internet. The IRI enables comparison between countries, regions, and sub-regions, with a balanced set of metrics that accounts for the Internet’s complex ecosystem and varied landscape.
Each country is assigned an Internet Resilience Score, calculated out of 100. It reflects four broad pillars, each representing a range of different components that contribute to the overall resilience of the Internet. Scores are weighted, so a drop or a rise in one indicator can mean an improvement in this country, or that others are over- or under-performing in that area.
Learn more about how we choose indicators and data sources, and about our weighting scheme and aggregation method in the methodology document [PDF].
Origins of the IRI
The Internet Resilience Index developed out of the Measuring Internet Resilience in Africa (MIRA) project. It uses best practices according to the EU-JRC and the OECD Handbook on Constructing Composite Indicators and the same methodology as currently existing indices such as the GSMA Mobile Connectivity Index, the Facebook/EIU Inclusive Internet Index and the Web Foundation Web Index.
API Access
You can access the data underpinning the Internet Resilience Index via our API.