Economics

Broadband Penetration Isn't Correlated to Economic Growth, and Other Mysteries

Photograph by Arman Zhenikeyev/Corbis
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The UN’s Broadband Commission recently issued a report ranking every country on various Internet usage statistics, including mobile broadband penetration, throughout each country’s population.

Looking at a series of relationship charts, we find there is no one obvious factor predicting mobile broadband penetration in these major countries.