Digital Quality of Life Global research of 65 countries’ digital quality of life. 2019
Our Lives Are Profoundly A ! ected by Our Digital Well-Being Over half of the entire population is using the internet, and more social interactions happen in the digital sphere. 6 42 2018 2018 51% 35% 2010 2010 29% 14% HOURS MINUTES Global internet Global social media Average hours spent penetration penetration online daily
How To Measure Our Digital Well-Being Internet affordability The first-ever study of the Digital Quality of Life (DQL) attempts to critically assess and compare our digital experiences Global E-government globally. It all comes down to the 6 Cybersecurity availability index ultimate criteria. Entertainment content availability Internet speed Personal data protection laws
Top 3 Countries with the Highest Digital Quality of Life in 2019 Out of 65 countries, covering a population of approximately 5.5 billion in every major region of the world. Australia France Singapore 0.7992 0.7985 0.7854 1 2 3 MOBILE SPEED 0.0681 MOBILE SPEED 0.0847 MOBILE SPEED 0.0893 19th 7th 6th BROADBAND SPEED 0.0199 BROADBAND SPEED 0.0620 BROADBAND SPEED 0.1144 42nd 11th 1st BROADBAND AFFORDABILITY 0.0310 BROADBAND AFFORDABILITY 0.0543 BROADBAND AFFORDABILITY 0.0291 14th 4th 15th MOBILE AFFORDABILITY 0.0938 MOBILE AFFORDABILITY 0.0443 MOBILE AFFORDABILITY 0.0227 1st 5th 12th E-GOVERNMENT SERVICES AVAILABILITY 0.1519 E-GOVERNMENT SERVICES AVAILABILITY 0.1530 E-GOVERNMENT SERVICES AVAILABILITY 0.1541 7th 4th 2nd DATA PROTECTION 0.1667 DATA PROTECTION 0.1667 DATA PROTECTION 0.1667 top tier top tier top tier CONTENT AVAILABILITY 0.1354 CONTENT AVAILABILITY 0.1016 CONTENT AVAILABILITY 0.1354 top tier middle tier top tier CYBERSECURITY OF A COUNTRY 0.1113 CYBERSECURITY OF A COUNTRY 0.1148 CYBERSECURITY OF A COUNTRY 0.1123 11th 3rd 6th
The Rest of DQL 2019 Index Results Ethiopia Norway Iceland Estonia South Africa Brazil 4 16 28 40 52 64 0.2328 0.7607 0.7045 0.6431 0.5738 0.5002 Algeria Japan United Kingdom Slovenia Malaysia Argentina 5 17 29 41 53 65 0.1865 0.7606 0.7035 0.6302 0.5727 0.4967 Canada Finland Ireland Uruguay Armenia 6 18 30 42 54 0.7516 0.7033 0.6242 0.5702 0.4903 Denmark Germany United Arab Emirates Ukraine Iran 7 19 31 43 55 0.7479 0.6914 0.6215 0.5639 0.4821 South Korea New Zealand India Chile Morocco 8 20 32 44 56 0.7448 0.6872 0.6165 0.5624 0.4740 Italy Belgium Romania Czech Republic Indonesia 9 21 33 45 57 0.7361 0.6690 0.6110 0.5598 0.4604 Sweden Austria Qatar Albania Thailand 10 22 34 46 58 0.7360 0.6687 0.6057 0.5564 0.4265 United States Lithuania Turkey China Nepal 11 23 35 47 59 0.7341 0.6553 0.6049 0.5548 0.4079 Netherlands Hungary Slovakia Greece Ecuador 12 24 36 48 60 0.7331 0.6529 0.5867 0.5534 0.3956 Israel Portugal Mexico Georgia Pakistan 13 25 37 49 61 0.7269 0.6478 0.5846 0.5499 0.3192 Switzerland Poland Croatia Azerbaijan Egypt 14 26 38 50 62 0.7223 0.6442 0.5832 0.5312 0.3010 Iraq Spain Russia Latvia Philippines 15 27 39 51 63 0.2915 0.7061 0.6439 0.5791 0.5252 China was included in the report, but it's a special case. Please read more about it in the full report.
Global Leaders by Specific Factors Third place First place Second place 1 2 3 Mobile internet speed Iceland Norway Canada Broadband internet speed Singapore Iceland South Korea Mobile internet affordability Australia Israel India Broadband internet affordability Israel Japan Italy E-government availability Denmark Singapore United States Global Cybersecurity index United Kingdom United States France
The Surprisers Lower GDP/capita correlates with lower DQL score. However, a few of the countries are overpe ! orming in some important digital fields. Namely, Hungary, Portugal, Poland, Russia, Estonia, Slovenia, Lithuania, India, Romania, and Turkey. FR AU 0.8 SG JP NO CA DK KR IT SE US NL IL CH HU LT ES GB NZ DE FI IS EE PT RU PL SI BE AT RO IN Digital Quality of Life TR IE AE QA 0.6 MX HR SK LV ZA MY CL UY UA GEAL GR CS CN PH AZ BR AR AM IR MA ID TH NP 0.4 EC PK EG IQ ET 0.2 DZ 0 20 000 40 000 60 000 80 000 GDP/capita $ Mean of DQL Mean of GDP/capita $ The underperformers The surprisers The leaders
5 Key Global Takeaways Plenty of room for Digital quality of life Well-developed internet Investment in mobile 62 out of 65 countries improvement. The median correlates with the infrastructure ≠ high DQL internet is the key have data protection laws value of the 2019 DQL country’s GDP/capita. An as a composition of less ingredient ensuring the or their drafts in place. index is 0.6110/1.000, increase of 0.0300 in the tangible factors sustainable improvement However, in many cases, which reveals that the DQL score can potentially (cybersecurity, personal of the digital quality of life the apparent commitment overall digital quality of add up to $10 thousand to data protection, etc.) is in the long run, especially to protect personal data is life is mediocre. No a country’s GDP/capita. essential as well. in developing economies. illusory. country scored over 0.8000, indicating drawbacks in various areas.
How a Pe ! ect DQL Country Would Look in 2019 Singapore Iceland Broadband USA Mobile speed speed Content availability Israel Broadband affordability Australia Mobile France affordability Data protection laws Denmark UK E-government Cybersecurity services of a country availability
To measure the quality of our digital lives, data covering various aspects of online experience was gathered from the United Nations, Freedom House, World Bank, International Telecommunications Union, and other databases. The composite factors of the index were determined by an expert panel from Surfshark , Chip.de , Comparitech.com , Journaldugeek.com , Tomshardware.de , Technadu.com , Vpngids.nl , Top10vpn.com , Bestvpn.co , and Vpnranks.com .
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