Average Internet Speed in Ghana

Internet in Ghana: what the data shows

At a median 9.9 Mbps download, Ghana sits near the back of the field: #103 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 14× the speed measured here.

Uploads keep pace with downloads (10.4 vs 9.9 Mbps): connections here are balanced, just not fast. Median latency is 119 ms. That is on the high side: pages and video still load, but calls, gaming and screen sharing carry a visible delay.

The fastest measured provider, MTN Ghana at 13 Mbps, sits close to the national median: providers cluster tightly here, so the plan tier you buy matters more than which network you pick.

Desktops test faster than phones here (11 vs 9 Mbps): home Wi-Fi and wired links outrun the mobile networks that carry 27% of tests. By operating system, Windows devices record the quickest median (9 Mbps) while Android sits at 8 Mbps, usually a proxy for the networks and hardware each platform rides on rather than the software itself.

Tests from Ghana most often reached the Ghana test server (61% 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.