Côte d'Ivoire residents need to work more than 65 hours to pay for a month's fixed broadband internet access. The country ranks last in the Internet accessibility rating compiled by Surfshark VPN service specialists.

The world average is ten times less and is six hours and 31 minutes. In Israel and Armenia, which occupy the first lines of the rating, you need to work less than 20 minutes to pay for home Internet. The most affordable mobile internet is also in Israel.

In Côte d'Ivoire, you need to work for almost an hour to pay for 1 GB of mobile data at the cheapest rate. The world average is 13 minutes.

Russia is in sixth place in the ranking of countries in terms of Internet accessibility: to pay for fixed Internet, you need to work a little more than half an hour, for mobile - a little more than two minutes. Germany is third, Singapore is fourth, and Japan is fifth.

In general, over the past year, the availability of fixed Internet in the world has slightly decreased (you need to work an average of six minutes longer), mobile, on the contrary, has increased (you need to work two minutes less).

The Internet accessibility rating has become an integral part of the study of the digital quality of life in different countries. To evaluate, Surfshark measured the ratio of the cheapest rates for broadband mobile Internet to the average hourly wage in the country.

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