Global IoT connectivity readiness index (beta)

Checked 2026-10-06

An IoT connectivity readiness ranking by country (beta), from confirmed data only and recalculated with every data update. Four parts: coverage — the share of networks with a sub-1 GHz 4G band, which carries indoor and rural coverage (30%); low-power IoT — 50 points if at least one network has confirmed LTE-M, 50 if NB-IoT (30%); 5G — the share of networks with 5G bands, plus RedCap where it is live (20%); device fit — the share of the devices we evaluate that work well on every network there (20%). Only confirmed data counts: "not listed" is never taken as "not available", so countries with thinner data may be under-scored — read the last column, data confidence (the share of 4G entries cross-checked by more than one source), alongside.

Rank	Country or region	Index	Coverage	LTE-M · NB-IoT	5G	Device fit	Data confidence
1	Germany	98	100	✔ · ✔	100 · RedCap	92	100%
2	Spain	97	100	✔ · ✔	100 · RedCap	85	100%
3	United Arab Emirates	97	100	✔ · ✔	100 · RedCap	85	83%
4	Australia	92	100	✔ · ✔	100 · RedCap	59	100%
5	Finland	92	100	✔ · ✔	70	90	100%
6	Hungary	92	100	✔ · ✔	70	90	94%
7	Czechia	92	100	✔ · ✔	70	90	78%
8	Netherlands	91	100	✔ · ✔	70	85	100%
9	Estonia	91	100	✔ · ✔	70	85	92%
10	Belgium	91	100	✔ · ✔	70	85	64%
11	Israel	90	100	✔ · ✔	70	79	50%
12	France	89	100	✔ · ✔	70	74	95%
13	Singapore	89	100	✔ · ✔	100 · RedCap	46	79%
14	New Zealand	89	100	✔ · ✔	70	77	57%
15	South Korea	88	100	✔ · ✔	70	69	100%
16	Bulgaria	87	100	✔ · ✔	70	64	100%
17	United Kingdom	87	100	✔ · ✔	70	64	88%
18	Poland	87	100	✔ · ✔	70	64	73%
19	Turkey	87	100	✔ · ✔	70	64	69%
20	United States	86	100	✔ · ✔	100 · RedCap	28	83%
21	Latvia	86	100	✔ · ✔	47	85	80%
22	Greece	86	100	✔ · ✔	47	85	41%
23	Brazil	85	100	✔ · ✔	70	56	82%
24	Thailand	85	100	✔ · ✔	70	56	67%
25	Italy	84	100	✔ · ✔	70	49	100%
26	Japan	84	100	✔ · ✔	100 · RedCap	18	84%
27	Canada	84	100	✔ · ✔	70	49	79%
28	China	83	100	✔ · ✔	100 · RedCap	13	100%
29	Romania	83	100	✔ · ✔	52	64	90%
30	Saudi Arabia	83	100	✔ · ✔	70	44	64%
31	Norway	82	100	✔ · ✔	47	64	89%
32	Colombia	81	100	✔ · ✔	70	36	54%
33	India	80	100	✔ · ✔	70	28	75%
34	Austria	77	100	✔ · ✔	0	85	94%
35	Portugal	77	100	✔ · ✔	18	69	90%
36	Switzerland	77	100	✔ · ✔	23	64	85%
37	Indonesia	77	100	— · ✔	70	92	83%
38	Sweden	77	100	✔ · ✔	0	85	83%
39	Denmark	77	100	✔ · ✔	0	85	75%
40	Russia	77	100	✔ · ✔	0	85	74%
41	Croatia	77	100	✔ · ✔	23	64	55%
42	Qatar	76	100	— · ✔	70	85	100%
43	Taiwan, China	75	100	✔ · ✔	0	77	64%
44	Argentina	75	100	✔ · —	70	79	46%
45	Ukraine	74	100	✔ · ✔	0	72	100%
46	Ireland	74	100	✔ · ✔	0	72	75%
47	Hong Kong, China	74	100	✔ · ✔	0	69	42%
48	Serbia	73	100	✔ · ✔	0	64	67%
49	Slovenia	73	100	✔ · ✔	0	64	64%
50	Lithuania	73	100	✔ · ✔	0	64	44%
51	Luxembourg	73	100	✔ · ✔	0	64	33%
52	Belarus	73	100	✔ · ✔	0	64	0%
53	Kenya	70	100	✔ · ✔	0	49	0%
54	Slovakia	69	75	✔ · ✔	18	64	57%
55	North Macedonia	66	100	— · ✔	35	72	100%
56	Mexico	65	67	✔ · ✔	47	28	67%
57	Chile	65	75	✔ · ✔	35	28	50%
58	Vietnam	64	33	✔ · ✔	47	72	57%
59	Kuwait	63	100	— · —	100 · RedCap	64	44%
60	Andorra	62	100	— · ✔	0	85	0%
61	Sri Lanka	60	67	✔ · ✔	0	49	0%
62	Malta	58	100	— · ✔	0	64	50%
63	Iceland	58	100	✔ · —	0	64	36%
64	Albania	58	100	✔ · —	0	64	0%
65	Kazakhstan	58	100	— · ✔	0	64	0%
66	Tunisia	58	100	— · ✔	0	64	0%
67	Pakistan	55	50	✔ · ✔	0	49	100%
68	Peru	55	100	— · —	70	56	44%
69	Jamaica	55	100	✔ · —	0	49	0%
70	Macao	54	100	— · —	47	72	20%
71	Liechtenstein	53	33	✔ · ✔	0	64	0%
72	Philippines	51	100	— · —	47	56	59%
73	Malaysia	50	100	— · ✔	0	26	95%
74	Uruguay	46	33	✔ · ✔	0	28	0%
75	Cuba	44	100	— · —	0	72	0%
76	Morocco	43	100	— · —	0	64	100%
77	Cabo Verde	43	100	— · —	0	64	0%
78	Djibouti	43	100	— · —	0	64	0%
79	Ghana	43	100	— · —	0	64	0%
80	Kyrgyzstan	43	100	— · —	0	64	0%
81	Comoros	43	100	— · —	0	64	0%
82	Lebanon	43	100	— · —	0	64	0%
83	Lesotho	43	100	— · —	0	64	0%
84	Monaco	43	100	— · —	0	64	0%
85	Mozambique	43	100	— · —	0	64	0%
86	New Caledonia	43	100	— · —	0	64	0%
87	French Polynesia	43	100	— · —	0	64	0%
88	Réunion	43	50	✔ · —	0	64	0%
89	Rwanda	43	100	— · —	0	64	0%
90	Seychelles	43	100	— · —	0	64	0%
91	Senegal	43	100	— · —	0	64	0%
92	Trinidad and Tobago	42	100	— · —	0	59	33%
93	Guyana	42	100	— · —	0	59	0%
94	Panama	42	100	— · —	0	59	0%
95	Papua New Guinea	42	100	— · —	0	59	0%
96	Tonga	42	100	— · —	0	59	0%
97	Vanuatu	42	100	— · —	0	59	0%
98	Uzbekistan	40	50	✔ · —	0	49	0%
99	Guatemala	38	50	✔ · —	0	38	0%
100	Bangladesh	37	25	— · ✔	0	72	78%
101	Barbados	36	100	— · —	0	28	0%
102	Bahamas	35	100	— · —	0	23	0%
103	Belize	35	100	— · —	0	23	0%
104	Tajikistan	35	75	— · —	0	64	0%
105	Cyprus	33	67	— · —	0	64	56%
106	Armenia	33	67	— · —	0	64	0%
107	Moldova	33	67	— · —	0	64	0%
108	Nepal	33	67	— · —	0	64	0%
109	Oman	32	33	— · —	70	41	67%
110	South Africa	32	25	— · ✔	0	49	50%
111	Costa Rica	29	0	✔ · —	0	69	0%
112	Laos	29	0	— · ✔	0	72	0%
113	Nigeria	28	60	— · —	0	49	80%
114	Gabon	28	50	— · —	0	64	0%
115	Georgia	28	67	— · —	0	41	0%
116	Montenegro	28	50	— · —	0	64	0%
117	Bhutan	26	50	— · —	0	56	0%
118	Fiji	26	50	— · —	0	56	0%
119	Mongolia	26	50	— · —	0	56	0%
120	Maldives	26	50	— · —	0	54	0%
121	Suriname	26	50	— · —	0	56	0%
122	Samoa	26	50	— · —	0	56	0%
123	Bolivia	25	67	— · —	0	23	0%
124	Bahrain	23	33	— · —	0	64	67%
125	Côte d'Ivoire	23	33	— · —	0	64	0%
126	Ecuador	23	0	✔ · —	0	38	0%
127	Honduras	23	0	✔ · —	0	38	0%
128	Namibia	23	50	— · —	0	41	0%
129	Myanmar	22	25	— · —	0	72	11%
130	Zambia	20	33	— · —	0	49	0%
131	Tanzania	19	40	— · —	0	36	0%
132	Dominican Republic	18	33	— · —	0	38	0%
133	Republic of the Congo	15	0	— · —	0	74	0%
134	Turkmenistan	15	0	— · —	0	74	0%
135	Afghanistan	14	0	— · —	0	72	0%
136	Angola	14	0	— · —	0	72	0%
137	Azerbaijan	14	0	— · —	0	72	0%
138	Burkina Faso	14	0	— · —	0	72	0%
139	Burundi	14	0	— · —	0	72	0%
140	Benin	14	0	— · —	0	72	0%
141	Brunei	14	0	— · —	0	72	0%
142	Botswana	14	0	— · —	0	72	0%
143	Algeria	14	0	— · —	0	72	0%
144	Egypt	14	0	— · —	0	72	0%
145	Ethiopia	14	0	— · —	0	72	0%
146	Gambia	14	0	— · —	0	72	0%
147	Guinea	14	0	— · —	0	72	0%
148	Jordan	14	0	— · —	0	69	0%
149	Cambodia	14	0	— · —	0	72	0%
150	Liberia	14	0	— · —	0	72	0%
151	Libya	14	0	— · —	0	72	0%
152	Madagascar	14	0	— · —	0	72	0%
153	Mali	14	0	— · —	0	72	0%
154	Mauritania	14	0	— · —	0	72	0%
155	Mauritius	14	0	— · —	0	72	0%
156	Solomon Islands	14	0	— · —	0	72	0%
157	Sudan	14	0	— · —	0	72	0%
158	South Sudan	14	0	— · —	0	72	0%
159	Syria	14	0	— · —	0	72	0%
160	Eswatini	14	0	— · —	0	72	0%
161	Chad	14	0	— · —	0	69	0%
162	Timor-Leste	14	0	— · —	0	72	0%
163	Zimbabwe	14	0	— · —	0	72	0%
164	Uganda	9	0	— · —	0	44	0%
165	Cameroon	8	0	— · —	0	41	0%
166	Haiti	8	0	— · —	0	38	0%
167	Malawi	8	0	— · —	0	41	0%
168	Nicaragua	8	0	— · —	0	38	0%
169	Paraguay	8	0	— · —	0	38	0%
170	El Salvador	8	0	— · —	0	38	0%
171	Venezuela	6	0	— · —	0	31	0%
172	DR Congo	1	0	— · —	0	5	0%

Machine-readable data (JSON) · How the data is checked

Global IoT connectivity readiness index (beta)

Suggest a correction

Contact us

Leave a message

WeChat