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
- Europe
- 60 / 100
- Infrastructure 63
- Market Readiness 55
- Performance 59
- Security 65
- Northern Europe
- 67 / 100
- Infrastructure 71
- Market Readiness 61
- Performance 65
- Security 72
Norway
76 / 100
The Internet in Norway is more resilient on average than other countries in Northern Europe, and is high for Europe. It ranks 1st in Northern Europe for infrastructure, a category that evaluates the availability of infrastructure for Internet connectivity. It ranks 8th in Europe for market readiness, a category that evaluates the overall competitiveness of the market, and the ability to offer affordable prices to consumers.
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- Infrastructure 84
- Market Readiness 64
- Performance 80
- Security 76
Infrastructure
84
Physical infrastructure for Internet connectivity exists, and is available.
Fiber ecosystem 63
Fibre 10km reach 63
The ability of the population to have access to a fiber connection point within 10 kilometers. Source: ITU
Enabling infrastructure 100
Data center coverage 100
Score measured based on data centers per 10 million population. Source: Data Center Map
Internet Exchange Point (IXP) coverage 100
Shows how well large population centers (defined as more than 300,000 people) are served by IXPs. Sources: Packet Clearing House (PCH), Peering DB
Mobile connectivity 95
Network coverage 96
Country has mobile network coverage (includes 2G, 3G, and 4G). Source: Composite score provided by GSMA
Spectrum allocation 92
Mobile operators have access to spectrum that allows them to offer sufficient services to customers.
Market readiness
64
The ability of the market to offer affordable prices to consumers by maintaining diversity and competition.
Market structure 56
Affordability 98
Measures the affordability of Internet connectivity for consumers. Source: ITU, A4AI
Upstream provider diversity 26
Uses the GINI Coefficient to measure the level of inequality when it comes to dependency on upstream connections. Source: Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ)
Market competition 49
Calculates the level of competition in the market. This uses the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI). Source: APNIC
Traffic localization 71
Domain count 100
Domains registered using ccTLD. Source: DomainTools
E-Government Development Index Score 91
Score on the United Nations E-Government Development Index (EGDI), which measures readiness for providing digital public services. Source: United Nations
Peering efficiency 34
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
Performance
80
How well the network provides seamless and reliable Internet services to consumers.
Fixed networks 80
Download speeds 50
Download speeds, measured by Ookla speed tests. Source: Ookla
Consistency 95
This measures the network jitter, which shows consistency of speed and performance across networks. Source: Ookla
Responsiveness 88
Measures how quickly content reaches a user. A connection that's responsive is low in latency or lag. Source: Ookla
Upload speeds 94
Upload speeds, measured by Ookla speed tests. Source: Ookla
Mobile networks 80
Download speeds 100
Download speeds, measured by Ookla speed tests. Source: Ookla
Consistency 76
This measures the network jitter, which shows consistency of speed and performance across networks. Source: Ookla
Responsiveness 46
Measures how quickly content reaches a user. A connection that's responsive is low in latency or lag. Source: Ookla
Upload speeds 86
Upload speeds, measured by Ookla speed tests. Source: Ookla
Security
76
Technologies and best practices support a network’s ability to resist disruptions.
Domain name system (DNS) security 94
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 89
A score showing how well DNS queries are protected by DNSSEC, across all web traffic. Source: APNIC
Security threat 83
DDoS protection 64
Level of protection across networks, preventing DDoS attacks against another country's networks. Source: Cybergreen
Global Cybersecurity Index Score 97
Estimates the ability of a country or economy to prevent and manage cyber incidents. Source: ITU
Secure Internet servers 85
Number of secure Internet servers per 1 million population. Source: World Bank
Enabling technologies 84
HTTPS adoption 95
Web pageloads that use HTTPS. Source: Mozilla
IPv6 adoption 57
Users can access online resources using IPv6, the new generation of the Internet Protocol. Sources: Akamai, Facebook, Google, APNIC
Routing hygiene 49
MANRS score 66
An overall score that measures routing security in a country's networks. Source: MANRS Observatory
Upstream connections 31
Shows how well a country's networks are connected with upstream providers. Source: CAIDA
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.