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
- Africa
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33 / 100average for 2023
- Infrastructure 26
- Market Readiness 30
- Performance 29
- Security 47
- Americas
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46 / 100average for 2023
- Infrastructure 41
- Market Readiness 42
- Performance 47
- Security 52
- Asia
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46 / 100average for 2023
- Infrastructure 39
- Market Readiness 40
- Performance 49
- Security 57
- Europe
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60 / 100average for 2023
- Infrastructure 63
- Market Readiness 55
- Performance 59
- Security 65
- Oceania
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44 / 100average for 2023
- Infrastructure 43
- Market Readiness 39
- Performance 29
- Security 63
- Eastern Africa
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34 / 100average for 2023
- Infrastructure 26
- Market Readiness 29
- Performance 31
- Security 50
- Middle Africa
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29 / 100average for 2023
- Infrastructure 21
- Market Readiness 32
- Performance 23
- Security 40
- Northern Africa
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35 / 100average for 2023
- Infrastructure 33
- Market Readiness 34
- Performance 25
- Security 49
- Southern Africa
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38 / 100average for 2023
- Infrastructure 31
- Market Readiness 38
- Performance 32
- Security 51
- Western Africa
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33 / 100average for 2023
- Infrastructure 25
- Market Readiness 26
- Performance 33
- Security 46
- Caribbean
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43 / 100average for 2023
- Infrastructure 34
- Market Readiness 39
- Performance 50
- Security 50
- Central America
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42 / 100average for 2023
- Infrastructure 38
- Market Readiness 40
- Performance 40
- Security 49
- Northern America
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60 / 100average for 2023
- Infrastructure 63
- Market Readiness 57
- Performance 59
- Security 62
- South America
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48 / 100average for 2023
- Infrastructure 47
- Market Readiness 42
- Performance 47
- Security 56
- Central Asia
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41 / 100average for 2023
- Infrastructure 33
- Market Readiness 36
- Performance 36
- Security 56
- Eastern Asia
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53 / 100average for 2023
- Infrastructure 43
- Market Readiness 50
- Performance 62
- Security 58
- South-eastern Asia
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49 / 100average for 2023
- Infrastructure 44
- Market Readiness 39
- Performance 54
- Security 58
- Southern Asia
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43 / 100average for 2023
- Infrastructure 36
- Market Readiness 38
- Performance 39
- Security 58
- Western Asia
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46 / 100average for 2023
- Infrastructure 39
- Market Readiness 39
- Performance 50
- Security 56
- Eastern Europe
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56 / 100average for 2023
- Infrastructure 58
- Market Readiness 49
- Performance 54
- Security 62
- Northern Europe
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67 / 100average for 2023
- Infrastructure 71
- Market Readiness 61
- Performance 65
- Security 72
- Southern Europe
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54 / 100average for 2023
- Infrastructure 58
- Market Readiness 49
- Performance 53
- Security 58
- Western Europe
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67 / 100average for 2023
- Infrastructure 67
- Market Readiness 62
- Performance 65
- Security 74
- Australia and New Zealand
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64 / 100average for 2023
- Infrastructure 71
- Market Readiness 61
- Performance 56
- Security 68
- Melanesia
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39 / 100average for 2023
- Infrastructure 41
- Market Readiness 24
- Performance 28
- Security 63
- Micronesia
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40 / 100average for 2023
- Infrastructure 31
- Market Readiness 37
- Performance 34
- Security 60
- Polynesia
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32 / 100average for 2023
- Infrastructure 23
- Market Readiness 42
- Performance 3
- Security 62
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.