Average Internet Speed in Ethiopia

Internet in Ethiopia: what the data shows

At a median 4.5 Mbps download, Ethiopia sits near the back of the field: #113 of 119 ranked countries, well under half the global median of 33.9 Mbps. The world's fastest median belongs to the United States at 144 Mbps, more than 31× the speed measured here.

Uploads keep pace with downloads (4.4 vs 4.5 Mbps): connections here are balanced, just not fast. Median latency is 149 ms. That is on the high side: pages and video still load, but calls, gaming and screen sharing carry a visible delay.

Among providers with enough measured tests, Ethio Telecom leads at 5 Mbps.

Desktops test faster than phones here (6 vs 4 Mbps): home Wi-Fi and wired links outrun the mobile networks that carry 61% of tests. By operating system, Windows devices record the quickest median (6 Mbps) while Android sits at 4 Mbps, usually a proxy for the networks and hardware each platform rides on rather than the software itself.

Tests from Ethiopia most often reached the Marseille test server (52% of the top-server mix), so the figures reflect the routes everyday traffic actually takes. Every number on this page is a median of single-stream browser tests from the H1 2026 window: Real-World Speed, measured on the open internet rather than inside an ISP's own network. It reads lower than peak-rate tests by design, and every country is measured with the same ruler.